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 Magic Life of V | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review

V for Vanquish: Hristov Showcases Role-Playing as Trauma Therapy in Intimate Doc For his seventh documentary feature, Finland’s Tonislav Hristov returns to his home country...

2019 Sundance Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films

Like many of the fourth quarter 2018 film festival circuit venues (Toronto, Venice, AFI), Sundance 2019 benefits from an overstuffed foreign film market, taking...

The Heiresses (Las herederas) | Review

Inherit the Wind: Martinessi Explores Class and Desire in Impressive Character Study While they seem to have outlived their best of times, the two privileged...

Close | Review

But No Cigar: Jewson’s Bodyguard Thriller Nary Skirts the Surface of Female Agency Director Vicky Jewson continues to mine the role of women working in...

Glass | Review

Walking on Broken Glass: Shyamalan Completes Superhero Trilogy with Chatty, Diagnostic Denouement For a film nineteen years in the making, M. Night Shyamalan’s highly anticipated...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Fatherland & Fjord Rated Top Films of Cannes!

The Palme d'Or winner and the Best Director winners...

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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