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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London | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Magnificent Obsession: Di Marco & Picoli Patrol the Poison of Perfection Our conditioned notions regarding beauty standards maintains our insidious and unhealthy fixation with obtaining...

Agata the Writer | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Blindness of Strangers: Dorabialski Stings the Storyteller “In the end, we’ll all become stories,” per Margaret Atwood, a sentiment which is ultimately at the...

Woman Unknown | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Penile Code: el-Toukhy Explores the Gendered Paradox of Liberation Something is certainly rotten in the state of Denmark following the country’s liberation from Nazi...

The Echo Chamber | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

An Affair to Disremember: Pallaoro Explores the Unbearable Bleakness of Being Love is hardly a many-splendored thing in The Echo Chamber, the fourth feature directed...

Oase (Oasis) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Child Inside: Lenz Explores the Virtues of Violence For his narrative feature debut Oasis, Jannis Lenz channels contemporary intergenerational neglect and the inherent apathy...

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Fjord | Review

Interview: Jacqueline Lentzou – A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra

A poem. A song. An argument. An apology. Inspired...

Interview: Andrea Pallaoro – The Echo Chamber

With his fourth feature film, Andrea Pallaoro turns his...

Lee Chang-dong – Possible Love

For his seventh feature film, Korean master filmmaker Lee...
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