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.

Exclusive articles:

Staying Vertical | Review

The Bipedal Advantage: Guiraudie Returns to Vaguely Pernicious Themes After his 2013 breakout success with Stranger By the Lake, a nod to France’s Hitchcockian forefather...

Train to Busan | Blu-ray Review

South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho scored a box office hit with his live action narrative debut Train to Busan, a zombie action film which...

Criterion Collection: Something Wild | Blu-ray Review

Love means never having to say you’re sorry, or so we were told by Ali McGraw in Arthur Hiller’s famous 1970 adaptation of the...

Criterion Collection: Fox and His Friends | Blu-ray Review

To revisit Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends in 2017, some forty years after its 1975 release, is to realize how unnervingly astute...

The Birth of a Nation | Blu-ray Review

Around this time a year ago, Nate Parker’s Sundance Award Winning directorial debut The Birth of a Nation was a surefire bet to be...

Breaking

No Salgas (Don’t Come Out) | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

It Doesn’t Follow: Linares Villegas’ Queer Horror Forgets the...

The Loneliest Man in Town | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Perfect Blue: Covi & Frimmel Marinate in Memories “Everything changing...

17 | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

This Makes Two of Us: Mitić Explores Binding Connection...

Home Stories | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Unbearable Likeness of Being: Trobisch Mines Banality in...
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