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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The Disaster Artist | Review

A Room of One’s Own: Franco’s Sincere Paean to the Art of Failed Art The notion “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” has assumed...

Wonder Wheel | Review #2

The Wheel of Their Discontent: Allen Stages Crumbling Marital Drama in the Dog Days of Coney Island As impeccably administered as it is at times...

The Shape of Water | Review

Creature from the Red Lagoon: Del Toro Gets Sentimental in Cold War Monster Drama Monsters return as metaphors in Guillermo Del Toro’s latest, The Shape...

This World, Then the Fireworks (1997) | Blu-ray Review

Had American culture not been subjected to the neutering forces of the Catholic Legion of Decency and the Hollywood Hays Code (enforced stridently from...

Cop-Out (1967) | Blu-ray Review

Belgian film-noir staple Georges Simenon remains a genre stalwart thanks to his enduring status in his native country and France, where his indefatigable detective...

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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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