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 Handmaiden | DVD Review

Although it may have gone home empty handed following its premiere in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Park Chan-wook’s latest sumptuous melodrama,...

The Marseille Trilogy | Review

In 2017’s first major (and highly impressive) restoration, Janus films breathes new life into novelist/playwright/director Marcel Pagnol’s indelible Marseille Trilogy, a triptych of films...

Newness | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review

Never Gonna Fall for Modern Love: Doremus Deftly Navigates the Hurtles of Millennial Romance Acute technological advancement has proffered up new, albeit problematic conceptions as...

Where is Kyra? | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review

Identification of a Woman: Dosunmu’s Exacting Arthouse Drama of Suffocation and Alienation Nigerian born director Andrew Dosunmu branches out with an unexpectedly somber portrait of...

Call Me By Your Name | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review

His Summer of Love: Guadagnino Returns with Perceptive, Tender Sketch of First Love Presented with an intoxicating combination of old fashioned reticence with bold and...

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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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