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 Lure | Review

They Could Go on Singing: Smoczynska’s Debut a Fairy Tale Grim Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska crafts a memorable directorial debut with The Lure, a 1980s...

2017 Berlin Intl. Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Most Anticipated Films

As the 67th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival kicks off, we run blazing into a new year of auteur worship. While the...

Anatahan (1953)| Review

Island of Lost Souls: Von Sternberg’s Lost Post-Colonial Swan Song Resurrected Best remembered for his indelible string of films starring Marlene Dietrich in the early...

The Salesman | Review

Dark but Full of Diamonds: Farhadi Incorporates Miller’s Tragic Theater for Gendered Revenge In keeping with his string of tersely titled but searing domestic melodramas,...

Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto Leads Nicholas Bell’s 2017 Sundance Film Fest Top Ten

In what ended up being one of the snowiest and coldest editions of Sundance in recent memory, there was no shortage of pleasant cinematic...

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2026 Cannes Film Festival – Checklist of Our Reviews

IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]

The jury of Leila Bekhti and peers Thomas Cailley,...
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