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 Conversation: Courting Quinzaine

Following last week’s announcement of the main competition program, all eyes are now focused on Edouard Waintrop’s selection for the 2017 Directors' Fortnight (April...

The Fate of the Furious | Review

Fated Attraction: Gray Delivers the Expected in Mind Numbing Franchise Entry Following the box office success of 2015’s Straight Outta Compton, his most relevant in...

My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea | Review

Teenage Dirtbag, Baby: Shaw’s Odd, Amusing Portrait of Stylized Teen Angst If some teenage version of Reading Rainbow coughed up a hallucinatory fever dream into...

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer

Fixer Downer: Cedar Unleashes Fascinating Portrait of Aggravating Underdog There’s an unshakeable sadness to Israeli director Joseph Cedar’s English language debut Norman: The Moderate Rise...

The Lost City of Z | Review

Zed and Buried: Gray’s Period Adventure a Meticulous Throwback of Epic Filmmaking American auteur James Gray unveils his most provocative film yet with the painstaking,...

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Interview: Federico Luis – For the Opponents | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

We discovered Argentine filmmaker Federico Luis as one of...

IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lucia Aleñar Iglesias (Forastera)

IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month highlights an emerging talent...

Interview: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, Zoe Stein & Agnès Pique Corbera – Forastera (2025)

Long before Bergman’s Persona undertook its psychological and existential...
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