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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Possible Love | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Blue is the Warmest Collar: Chang-dong Prepares a Touch of Class Boiled down to its core essence, Possible Love, the first feature from South Korean...

It Will Happen Tonight (Succederà questa notte) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Birds, the Bees and the (Displaced) Italians: Moretti Tries Amour For In the latter half of his career, revered Italian director Nanni Moretti has...

Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

How Awful About Allen: Tsukamoto Continues Charting Casualties of War “Ain’t war hell?,” asks the door gunner to Matthew Modine’s protagonist in Stanley Kubrick’s Full...

A Place To Heal (15/18) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Teenage Wasteland: Kahn Gets Clinical with Familiar Procedural Picture this: A bustling medical ward in a top performing French facility with specialized treatment protocols where...

Wild Horse Nine | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

They Shoot Agents, Don’t They?: McDonagh Morosely Reflects a Pernicious Empire Americans can’t quite seem to directly engage with their ills of the present by...

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Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

A Heavy Toll: Shirai’s Artful Take on the Body...

Interview: Virginie Efira – All of a Sudden

In All of a Sudden (read review), Virginie Efira delivers...

Interview: Nathalia Acevedo – Salón de belleza

Actress-turned-filmmaker Nathalia Acevedo made her feature directorial debut with...

Fjord | Review

Uncanny Valley: Mungiu Explores Liberated Prisons Totalitarian mentality is driven...
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