Nicholas Bell

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Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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I Only Rest In The Storm | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

White Impact: Pinho Explores the Ponderous Progress Through Post-Colonial Perceptions “We never seem to be where we are,” remarks one of the characters in Pedro...

A Useful Ghost | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Ghost in the Machine: Boonbunchachoke Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost Spirits, in all their various forms, are an abiding fixture in Thai culture and folklore,...

La Danse des Renards (Wild Foxes) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Fox on the Run: Carnoy Explores Bruised Masculinity Following the incestuous liaison of Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer (2023), Samuel Kircher (son of Irene Jacob) braces...

Que ma volonté soit faite (Her Will Be Done) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Burn Witch, Burn: Kowalski Nurses a Curse in Sinister Backwoods For her sophomore feature Her Will Be Done (Que ma volonté soit faite), Julia Kowalski...

Kika | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Belle de Jour: Mourning Becomes Sex Work in Poukine’s Debut There’s arguably a slippery slope at work in Alexe Poukine’s narrative debut Kika, a far...

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