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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Criterion Collection: A Face in the Crowd (1957) | Blu-ray Review

“There’s nothing as trustworthy as the ordinary mind of the ordinary man,” is the haunting mantra scrawled in leering monogram on the façade of...

Clement Plays More Games in Bizarre Rider on the Rain (1970) | Blu-ray Review

For a bizarre psychosexual early-70s oddity ripe for rediscovery, look no further than Renè Clément’s 1970 title Rider on the Rain, adapted from a...

The Conversation: Producer Rodrigo Teixeira

Brazilian based producer Rodrigo Teixeira established Sao Paolo company RT Features in 2005 and has become an increasingly notable major player in a broad array...

The White Crow | Review

Defector Becomes Him: Fiennes Revisits the Westernization of Rudolf Nureyev There’s much to admire in the third directorial outing of actor Ralph Fiennes with The...

The Conversation: Last But Not Least for Cannes 2019

With the main competition and the sidebar programs all unveiled, we await news of one or potentially two last-minute titles added to the competition,...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Fatherland & Fjord Rated Top Films of Cannes!

The Palme d'Or winner and the Best Director winners...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Léa Mysius’ ‘Histoires de la Nuit’

Léa Mysius’s cinema as to this point focused on...

The Black Ball (La bola negra) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the...
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