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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Good Manners | Review

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf Mother?: Dutra & Rojas Spin Magical Spell with Subversive Class Commentary Horror As its title would indicate, social etiquette and...

Reinventing Marvin | 2018 Outfest Film Festival Review

Jewel of Denial: Fontaine Focuses on Class and Queerness in Coming-Out Portrait French director Anne Fontaine continues to surprise with her varied filmography, turning her...

The Conversation: Looking Towards the Lido

With less than ten hours separating us from the Venice Film Festival selections, the 2018 edition is one of the most anticipated competitions for...

Criterion Collection: Dragon Inn (1967) | Blu-ray Review

If martial arts could be spliced into opera, it would look something like King Hu’s 1967 cult classic Dragon Inn, the second of his...

Carpenter’s Nowhere to Be Seen in his Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)

John Carpenter’s first entry in the 1990s, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, plays like the death knell of the genre icon’s impressive career, marking...

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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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