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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The Unknown (L’Inconnue) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

She Who Is Not: Harari Explores Existential Identity Issues in the Body Swap “A woman, for me, must remain a woman,” stated Andrey Tarkovsky when...

Hope | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Monster Squad: Hong-jin Goes Full-Blown Extraterrestrial For his fourth feature, South Korean director Na Hong-jin goes for breakneck, relentless mayhem in the curiously titled Hope....

Another Day (Garance) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Rosé is the Warmest Color: Herry Explores a Liver of No Return In several ways, Jeanne Herry’s latest socially conscious drama Garance (unfortunately outfitted with...

Moulin | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Elevator the Gallows: Nemes Aims to Exhaust in Homage to the French Resistance Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic account of the French Resistance, Army of Shadows (1969)...

The Station | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

No Man’s Land: Women Wage Resistance in Ishaq’s Wartime Debut Yemenis director Sara Ishaq approaches an examination of life during wartime in her native country...

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IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lucia Aleñar Iglesias (Forastera)

IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month highlights an emerging talent...

Interview: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, Zoe Stein & Agnès Pique Corbera – Forastera (2025)

Long before Bergman’s Persona undertook its psychological and existential...

Renoir | Review

Family of Straw: Hayakawa Paints Busy Coming-of-Age Portrait Going in...

The Wizard of the Kremlin | Review

The Russians Are Killing the Russians Are Killing: Assayas...
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