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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Paris Can Wait | Review

Forget Paris: Lane is a Fine Vintage from the Coppola Vineyards At the age of eighty, Eleanor Coppola makes her narrative feature debut with the...

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | Review

Le Morte d’Arthur: Ritchie Bastardizes another Icon In the same punchy tradition in which he usurped Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for two studio Sherlock Holmes...

Snatched | Review

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Trainwreck: Levine Streamlines the Diffident Return of Hawn into So-So Mother-Daughter Comedy More often than note, notable actresses...

The Scar | Blu-ray Review

Originally released as Hollow Triumph (easily the more poetically layered metaphor of a moniker), Steve Sekely’s 1948 film noir classic The Scar lapsed into...

Right Now, Wrong Then | Blu-ray Review

Recently formed distribution label Grasshopper Film has already managed to build a formidable reputation by saving a number of auteur driven art-house titles from...

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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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