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.

Exclusive articles:

All the Better to Eat with Dutra & Rojas’ Good Manners | DVD Review

Premiering in competition at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival, Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas’ superb second collaboration Good Manners was purchased by Distrib Films...

Cassel Gets Gifted in Deluc’s Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti | Blu-ray Review

French painter Paul Gauguin receives two noted cinematic approximations in 2018. Edouard Deluc’s Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti features Vincent Cassel as the tropically consumed...

Bodied | Review

Shock the Body Electric: Kahn Addresses Pertinent Isms in Provoking Comedy Lauded music video director Joseph Kahn delivers a successful contemporary conversation piece with sophomore...

A Private War | Review

War is War is War: Heineman Tackles the Controversial Marie Colvin in Narrative Debut Oscar nominated documentarian Matthew Heineman (2015’s Cartel Land), follows up recent...

Criterion Collection: The Naked Prey (1965) | Blu-ray Review

When one thinks of Cornel Wilde, a veritable Hollywood everyman who was peppered across a variety of noir and studio productions throughout the 1940s...

Breaking

Love (Kjærlighet) | Review

Ain’t Nothin’ But Sex Misspelled: Haugerud Continues Quiet, Earnest...

Sister Midnight | Review

Crazy On You: Kandhari’s Strange Fantasy of Madness It’s been...

The Damned | Review

The Damned Do Cry: Minervini Details a Doomed Mission For...

Exclusive Clip: It’s Chill Vibes (for Now) in Pedro Pinho’s ‘I Only Rest In The Storm’

After premiering The Nothing Factory in the Directors' Fortnight...
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