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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A New Dawn | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 22, 2026

Grave of the Fireworks: Shinomiya Finds All the Colors in the Dark For his debut film, A New Dawn, animator Yoshitoshi Shinomiya marries bureaucratic takeovers,...

We Are All Strangers | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 20, 2026

Strategy of Tragedy: Chen Overdoses on Drama in Sprawling Family Portrait The most succinct aspect of Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen’s latest feature, We Are All...

The Loneliest Man in Town | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 19, 2026

Perfect Blue: Covi & Frimmel Marinate in Memories “Everything changing all the time. Even the air you breathing change,” notes a character in August Wilson’s...

Home Stories | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 18, 2026

The Unbearable Likeness of Being: Trobisch Mines Banality in Family Drama Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way…and sometimes those unhappy ways are...

Flies (Moscas) | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 18, 2026

All the Small Things: Eimbcke Explores the Pleasures of Disruption The titular insects of Fernando Eimbcke’s latest feature, Flies (Moscas), metaphorically represent an unwanted, aggravating...

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