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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Das Licht | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Wasting Electricity: Tykwer Illuminates a Narrative Void Despite revealing itself to be an interconnected rumination on aspects of the soul, Tom Tykwer’s Das Licht (The...

Parthenope | Review

The Boring & Beautiful: Sorrentino’s Tone Deaf Portrait of a Lady It’s unfortunate no one’s as likely to be infatuated with the eponymous Parthenope (pronounced...

Marcello Mio | Review

In the Name of the Father: Honore Pays Homage via Identity Crisis “I only exist when I am working on a film,” Marcello Mastroianni...

DJ Ahmet | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review

All DJs, Great and Small: Unkovski’s Debut Can’t Stop the Music While its location might feel inherently unique, the happenings in Georgi M. Unkovski’s narrative...

I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) | Review

Still Missing: Salles Returns with Survivors of the Dictatorship “The dictatorship’s mistakes was to torture but not kill,” former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro proudly claimed...

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2026 Cannes’ La Résidence: Pillion’s Harry Lighton & Toxic’s Saulé Bliuvaité Among Half Dozen Selected

The Cannes Film Festival’s La Résidence is welcoming Harry...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...
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