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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Detour | Review

Byway Bric-a-Brac: Smith Disappoints with Undistinguished Neo-noir If the title sounds familiar, it’s because British director Christopher Smith is borrowing from the moniker from Edgar...

Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo | Review

The Night is Young: Ducastel & Martineau’s Procedural Queer Romance For their seventh theatrical feature, Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (also known for its more...

Criterion Collection: Black Girl | Blu-ray Review

To speak of African cinema, one must begin with a discussion of Ousmane Sembene, the Senegalese auteur credited as the father of African film....

No Highway in the Sky | Review

German import Henry Koster, like many of Hollywood’s studio directors, is not a name many remember despite having been responsible for a quite a...

Comes a Horseman | Blu-ray Review

Of the noted revisionist westerns from the New American Cinema of the 1970s, one of the most neglected is Alan J. Pakula’s 1978 title...

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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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