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 History of Sound | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

One Sings, the Other Doesn’t: Hermanus Plays a Tune for the Broken Hearted “Happiness doesn’t tell stories,” is a sage observation uttered in The History...

Romería | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction After winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for her 2022 sophomore film Alcarras,...

Fuori | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Hoosegow Girls: Martone Pays Delicate Tribute to Goliarda Sapienza “Never refuse to see the unpleasant aspects of life,” wrote Goliarda Sapienza in her widely...

It Was Just an Accident | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Phantom Limb: Panahi Treads Ripples of Retribution Jafar Panahi continues to poke the bear with It Was Just an Accident, his latest being another film...

Alpha | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease Allegory “Death is the cure for all illness,” wrote English writer Thomas Browne, which is a...

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Hot Milk | Review

The Eternal Daughter: Lenkiewicz Ladles the Milk of Sorrows Screenwriter...

Interview: Ariane Labed – September Says

A pivotal figure in the Greek Weird Wave, Ariane...

Interview: Jessica Palud – Being Maria

In 2018, political journalist and writer Vanessa Schneider released...
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