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: Billy Wilder’s The Apartment & Lindsay Anderson’s The Whales of August

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: The Apartment (1960) - Arrow Academy / The Whales of August (1987) - Kino Lorber / Sayonara...

Criterion Collection: Election (1999) | Blu-ray Review

During the final throes of the 1990s, as the last vestiges of Generation X began to crown into adulthood and the budding millennials were...

Video Countdown: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Films of 2017

Although we have another facetiously titled Michael Haneke film to ring in the New Year with, it is a decidedly unhappy end considering the...

Best of 2017: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Undistributed but not…Unloved

Prior to unveiling the top theatrical releases of 2017, here's a little love for some festival circuit being held for theatrical release next year...

The Two of Us | Review

If We Try: Berri’s Exceptional Debut Granted Sterling Restoration Arriving just in time to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, French auteur Claude Berri’s 1967 directorial...

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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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