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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La cache (The Safe House) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

May Days: Baier’s Broad Commentary on a Revolutionary Footnote “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people,” said Eleanor Roosevelt. Dipping...

Yunan | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Nothing is Everything: Eldin’s Continuing Exploration of Existential Crisis For his sophomore film Yunan, intended as the second chapter in a thematic trilogy following 2021’s...

Mother’s Baby | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby: Moder Repeats Motherhood Horrors A palpable, instinctual fascination with the potential horrors of pregnancy are exactly why neonatal dread...

The Message (El mensaje) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Gates of Heaven: Fund Explores Creature Comforts from Beyond “We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we...

What Marielle Knows | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Best Little Secrets Are Kept: Hambalek’s Absurdly Skewers the Virtues of Honesty Honesty may indeed be the best policy and maybe the truth might...

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2027 Oscars: Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ in International Feature Race

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2027 Oscars: ‘Everytime’, ‘Coward’ & ‘Possible Loves’ Enter International Feature Oscar Race

The International Feature Film category is only beginning to...

Park Ji-Min Joins Théodore Pellerin in Philippe Lesage’s ‘I Just Want a Great Love Story’

Production has begun on Philippe Lesage's highly anticipated I...
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