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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Hotel by the River | Review

Heartbreak Hotel: Estrangement and Reunion Synchronize in Latest Sangsoo Slice of Life It’s a short-lived distinction to be called the latest anything from South Korean...

Birds of Passage | Review

Wayuu of the Gun: Greed’s No Good in Guerra & Gallego’s Ganja Saga Crime doesn’t pay, at least not for the indigenous Wayuu people in...

Monsters. | 2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Time to Leave: Olteanu’s Debut Examines the Strain of Sacrifice in Studied Marital Drama The relationship at the center of Romanian director Marius Olteanu’s carefully...

Öndög | 2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Steppe in the Name of Love: Quan’an Returns with Distinctive, Mysterious Flair For his seventh feature, Chinese filmmaker Wang Quan’an turns to the Mongolian steppe...

Everybody Knows (Todos Lo Saben) | Review

Iran So Far Away: Farhadi Stumbles with Spanish Soap Opera Two-time Oscar-winning Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi (A Separation; The Salesman) makes his Spanish-language debut with...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Léa Mysius’ ‘Histoires de la Nuit’

Léa Mysius’s cinema as to this point focused on...

The Black Ball (La bola negra) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the...
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