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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Tuesday Blus: Get into Sacha Guitry with Four Films 1936-1938

Oft compared to British playwright Noel Coward (most likely because he’s the closest composite in the English-speaking hyper-articulate realm), France’s Sacha Guitry rose to...

Tuesday Blus: A Child is Waiting in Najafi’s Action Ms.-Fire | Proud Mary (2018)

If blaxploitation had been granted the opportunity to morph into characterless soap opera, it would have been a movement populated by the likes of...

Tuesday Blus: Dwansong – Allan Dwan & Gloria Swanson X2 from the Roaring 20s

It’s impossible to avoid mention of Gloria Swanson when ruminating on the early days of American cinema, a film and fashion icon who was...

Tuesday Blus: Hawn Gets Heard in Harris’ Melodrama Deceived (1991)

Arriving in the midst of Goldie Hawn’s last real prolific period in the early-to-mid 1990s, the Damian Harris (son of actor Richard Harris and...

The Conversation – Cannes Predictions IV: Brit Helmers Leigh, Hogg & Strickland Lead Anglo Contingency

On the British side, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo was once assumedly a for sure thing (he won the Palme in 1996 for Secrets & Lies),...

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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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