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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Salvation | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 16, 2026

Hysterical Intervention: Alper Gets Overwrought Exploring Tribalism The land dispute at the center of Emin Alper’s latest film Salvation has all the trademarks of a...

Rosebush Pruning | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 15, 2026

The Killing of a Sacred Dogtooth: Ainouz Paints with Contempt Karim Aïnouz doesn’t so much eat the rich as he does regurgitate them in his...

Nightborn | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 15, 2026

Only Mothers Left Alive: Bergholm Tackles Motherhood Malaise Finnish director Hanna Bergholm adds to the subgenre of motherhood body horror with Nightborn (Yön Lapsi), an arguably...

Dao | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 14, 2026

Family Rituals: Gomis Goes For Broke in Sprawling Epic With his first narrative feature in nearly a decade, French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis formulates a complex...

Everybody Digs Bill Evans | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - February 14, 2026

A Jazzman’s Blues: Gee Strikes the Right Chords in Tender DocudramaE British filmmaker Grant Gee, heretofore best known as a documentarian of various musical artists,...

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