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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Fjord | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 19, 2026

Uncanny Valley: Mungiu Explores Liberated Prisons Totalitarian mentality is driven to logical extremes in Fjord, Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu’s first foray outside of his native...

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

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Nicholas Bell - May 18, 2026

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

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Nicholas Bell - May 18, 2026

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....

Strawberries (La más dulce) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 18, 2026

Fruit on the Vine: Marrakchi Harvests Bitter Justice “We give our bodies. All that for peanuts,” is an anguished remonstrance from the protagonist in Strawberries,...

Another Day (Garance) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 18, 2026

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...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

Nicholas Bell - June 5, 2026

Interview: Théodore Pellerin – Unifrance 10 to Watch 2026 | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Interviews June 5, 2026 0

At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, we got to...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

Interviews June 4, 2026 0

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.