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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The Gentle Indifference Of The World | 2018 Cannes Film Festival Review

World, Hold On: Yerzhanov Conjures Camus with Doomed Love Story Kazakhstani director Adilkhan Yerzhanov continues his fascination with Albert Camus in his latest feature, The...

Leto | 2018 Cannes Film Festival Review

Goodbye Lenin: Serebrennikov’s Vibrant Time Capsule More than a Feeling Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov’s on-going house-arrest in Moscow lends his latest film, the period piece...

The Conversation: Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Most Anticipated 2018 Cannes Films

Time will surely tell if Cannes 2018 is as truly daring as it thinks its competition line-up is, sporting nine directors (nearly half of...

The Conversation: Producer David Thion

French producer David Thion has spent the past eighteen years gambling on untested talents, fostering the filmography of several Gallic novices into full-fledged auteurs....

Backstabbing for Beginners | Review

The Oil and the Pussycat: Fly’s English Debut Sinks to the Bottom Danish director Per Fly makes his English language debut with Backstabbing for...

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2026 Cannes Film Festival – Checklist of Our Reviews

IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]

The jury of Leila Bekhti and peers Thomas Cailley,...
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