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 Lovers | Blu-ray Review

A classy, complex affair, Azazel Jacobs scores his greatest achievement to date with The Lovers, taking a break from the adolescent, man-child ennui which...

The Conversation: Venice 2017 – Those Who Were Not Named

With Locarno and Venice’s recently announced competition line-ups, the last stand as far as 2017 festival circuit competition now sits with the soon to...

Menashe | Review

Not Without My Son: Weinstein Crafts Tender, Orthodox Familial Drama Graduating from documentary filmmaking to narrative cinema with Menashe, director Joshua Z. Weinstein examines universal...

Amnesia | Review

Never Forget: Schroeder Quietly Examines Cultural Identity in Isolation In an intriguingly varied career, which was kick started during the early days of the Nouvelle...

From the Land of the Moon | Review

The Spa of Loneliness: Garcia’s Clunky Wartime Romance Though she’s perhaps still best known as a prolific actress, Nicole Garcia has quietly built an impressive...

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Nightborn | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Only Mothers Left Alive: Bergholm Tackles Motherhood Malaise Finnish director...

Dao | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Family Rituals: Gomis Goes For Broke in Sprawling Epic With...

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

A Jazzman’s Blues: Gee Strikes the Right Chords in...
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