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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Kika | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Belle de Jour: Mourning Becomes Sex Work in Poukine’s Debut There’s arguably a slippery slope at work in Alexe Poukine’s narrative debut Kika, a far...

Dossier 137 | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Investigation of Citizens Above Suspicion: Moll Persists with Police Procedural Dominik Moll reunites with his usual collaborating scribe Gilles Marchand in Dossier 137, their third...

L’Engloutie (The Girl in the Snow) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Snow Way: Hémon Delivers Unwanted Help in the High Alps A young, idealistic school teacher almost literally chooses her hill to die on in Louise...

Enzo | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Call Me By Your Pain: Campillo Gently Guides Cantet’s Swan Song Laurent Cantet was a filmmaker consistently concerned with humans existing on the margins, those...

Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Chef’s Kiss: Bonnin Uses Familiar Recipe in Pleasant Debut For her directorial debut, Partir un Jour (Leave One Day), based on her own 2021 Cesar...

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