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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Wonderstruck | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review

Time After Time: Haynes Captures Wistful Tone of Bygone Eras American indie auteur Todd Haynes explores dual cinematic pastiche in his most family friendly film...

Loveless | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review

Some Great Reward: Zvyagintsev Rips into Missing Muscovites Bitter familial separation and newly fermented coupling are equal bed partners in what staunchly begins as...

Criterion Collection: Good Morning | Blu-ray Review

Criterion re-releases one of its early additions to the collection for the first time on Blu-ray, Yasujiro Ozu’s poignant late period comedy, Good Morning...

Alien: Covenant | Review

This Time It’s More: Scott Repeats the Beats of Initial Sci-Fi Classic for Sequel Prequel There comes a time when too much tinkering with one...

The Conversation: Run the Comps – Top 5 Most Anticipated Main Comp Entries

It’s back to business as usual for the main competition contenders at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, with programmer Thierry Fremaux re-inviting a number...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Koji Fukada’s ‘Nagi Notes’

Koji Fukada emerged as one of the major voices...

A Woman’s Life (La Vie d’une femme) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Things to Come: Bourgeois-Tacquet Explores an Affair to Remember Crimes...

Nagi Notes | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Only the Lonely: Fukada Explores Constructions of Identity Japanese auteur...
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