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.

Exclusive articles:

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...

Possible Love | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Blue is the Warmest Collar: Chang-dong Prepares a Touch of Class Boiled down to its core essence, Possible Love, the first feature from South Korean...

It Will Happen Tonight (Succederà questa notte) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Birds, the Bees and the (Displaced) Italians: Moretti Tries Amour For In the latter half of his career, revered Italian director Nanni Moretti has...

Primetime | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Catcher in the Sty: Oppenheim Skewers Hack Journalist It’s perhaps fortuitous for Lance Oppenheim’s narrative debut Primetime, which charts the brief but meteoric run...

Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

How Awful About Allen: Tsukamoto Continues Charting Casualties of War “Ain’t war hell?,” asks the door gunner to Matthew Modine’s protagonist in Stanley Kubrick’s Full...

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NAZA | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Destroy Everything You Touch: Abraham & Szor Explore the...

The Fire Within You (Il fuoco che ti porti dentro) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Shrill Seekers: De Angelis Turns to Comedic Caricature For...

A Good Little Soldier (Un bon petit soldat) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

A HR Manager Never Cries: Brize Takes on Executive...

DAU | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Darkness Visible: Khrzhanovsky Reformulates Saga of Shattered Scientists If ex-Attorney...
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