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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Back to Burgundy | Review

Days of Wine and More Wine: Klapisch Delivers a Weak Vintage with Sibling Saga French director Cedric Klapisch has enjoyed something of a singular, sanctified...

Isle of Dogs | Review

A Dog’s Tale: Anderson Returns to Animation with Scruffy, Eclectic Fantasy We’ve come to expect a certain technical formality from Wes Anderson, even across a...

Beauty and the Dogs | Review

Body Talk: Ben Hania’s Troubled and Troubling Portrait of Sexual Assaul Perfectly encapsulating, perhaps to the heights of exaggeration and exploitation, why victims of sexual...

Criterion Collection: Baal (1970) | Blu-ray Review

A missing cornerstone of Brechtian and New German Wave cinema is at last recuperated with the resurrection of Baal, a 1970 German television...

Tuesday Blus: Sweet Child O’Mine in Paul Newman’s Marigolds

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972) Considering its pedigree, it’s a surprise The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds fell...

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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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