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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Burning | Review

A Touch of Class: Chang-dong Returns with Masterful Class Clash Puns concerns its slow build will be sincerely intended in forthcoming deliberations on South Korean...

Halloween | Review

To Grandmother’s House We Go: Green Succeeds with Obedient Resurrection of the Carpenter Classic The original tagline for John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween, which...

Love is a Battlefield in Cocteau’s Portrait of Familial Dysfunction Les Parents Terribles (1948) | Blu-ray Review

If Frank Capra had been around to tackle a Harold Robbins’ novel, it might have a vibe such as Jean Cocteau’s forgotten 1948 masterpiece,...

Criterion Collection: Andrei Rublev | Blu-ray Review

“God will forgive you, don’t forgive yourself,” Andrei Rublev is told, the famed Russian iconographer who’s witnessing of the world’s innate and incomprehensible suffering...

Doillon Sculpts Scraps in Dry Biopic in Cannes Preemed Rodin (2017) | Blu-ray Review

Although it’s one of director Jacques Doillon’s most prolific projects in years, his 2017 biopic Rodin, headlined by revered French actor Vincent Lindon, is...

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Nuisance Bear | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review

Creature Discomfort: Docu Explores the Long Rift Between Neighbors Adding...

2026 Sundance: Beth de Araújo’s ‘Josephine’ Doubles Down Lands Grand Jury & Audience Award Prizes

Following a thunderous world premiere, Beth de Araújo’s sophomore...

Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review

Strictly Soft Gloom: Wladyka's Bereft Bliss Puts Spotlight on...

Birds of War | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review

Soaringly Bittersweet: Boulos & Alkader Habak Fall in Love...
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