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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Dovlatov | Review

Author! Author!: German Jr. Tackles a Week in the Life of a Dissident Writer While it’s Alexey German Jr.’s (son of the equally idiosyncratic Alexey...

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...

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2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Un Certain Regard

Introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob, the Un Certain...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Directors’ Fortnight

It’s nearly impossible to predict what the programming crew...

2026 Eurimages: Mia Hansen-Love, Justine Triet, Bertrand Bonello & Mungiu/Uricaru Land Coin

World cinema heavyweights Mia Hansen-Love, Justine Triet and Bertrand...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Critics’ Week

The parallel selection dedicated to debut and sophomore features...
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