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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Ismael’s Ghosts (Director’s Cut) | Review

Call Me, Ismael: Desplechin Presents Jumbled Portrait of the Artist as a Dulled Man Perhaps not since the quill of Charles Dickens, wherein iconic Ebenezer...

Tomb Raider | Review

A Tomb of One’s Own: Uthuag Cracks a Croft Pot with Video Game Reboot Norwegian helmer Roar Uthaug, who scored an international breakthrough with his...

Tuesday Blus: On the Metro with Peerce’s The Incident & Mother’s Little Helper in Atlman’s Images

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Call Me By Your Name Film Review: ★★★½/☆☆☆☆☆ Disc Review: ★★★/☆☆☆☆☆ Winning one of its four Oscar nominations...

Hannah | Review

No Whale Out: Pallaoro Strikes Somber Chords with Pitch Perfect Rampling You’ll be hard pressed to find another melodrama as inconspicuously tightlipped as Andrea Pallaoro’s...

Interview: Bavo Defurne & Yves Verbraeken – Souvenir

We met with director Bavo Defurne and screenwriter Yves Verbraeken following the premiere of their sophomore collaboration Souvenir at the Toronto International Film Festival...

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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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