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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Sicilian Letters (Iddu) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Letters to Daddy: Grassadonia & Piazza Continue Their Cosa Nostra Sagas Italian directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza reimagine the circumstances surrounding yet another mafioso...

Diva Futura | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Erotic Stagnancy: Steigerwalt’s Depthless Approach of a Italian Porn Heyday There’s a formidably compelling subject matter at the heart of Giulia Louise Steigerwalt’s sophomore film...

The Quiet Son (Jouer avec le feu) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Father Knows Best: The Coulin Sisters Examine the Detrimental Ripples of Fascism With their third feature, The Quiet Son, French directing duo Delphine and Muriel...

Campo di Battaglia (Battlefield) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Down with the Sickness: Amelio Probes Wartime Ethical Dilemmas The tagline for Battlefield, the latest from Italian auteur Gianni Amelio, could very well read “You...

And Their Children After Them | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Teenage Wasteland: Boukherma Bros. Sprawl with Coming-of-Age Melodrama French directing twins Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma swing hard with their fourth feature, And Their Children After...

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2026 Cannes’ La Résidence: Pillion’s Harry Lighton & Toxic’s Saulé Bliuvaité Among Half Dozen Selected

The Cannes Film Festival’s La Résidence is welcoming Harry...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...
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