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:

Bird | Review

Dole Days: Arnold Flutters About with Strange Bedfellows There’s certainly a definable emotional core in Andrea Arnold’s fifth narrative feature, Bird, but the ideas and...

Small Things like These | Review

All the Small Things: Mielants Mines the Evils of Complicity “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...

Emilia Pérez | Review

Risky Business: Audiard Surprises with Vibrant Genre Musical Although it’s assembled from unlikely, even questionable sources, Jacques Audiard’s latest feature, Emilia Pérez, a genre...

Blitz | Review

London Has Fallen: McQueen Explores Life During Wartime Following his extensively researched 2023 documentary Occupied City, which details WWII atrocities waged against the Dutch during...

Dahomey | Review

Plunder Years: Diop Reflects on the Complex Realities of Reparation The spirit of Ozymandias, the classic poem from Percy Bysshe Shelley, might rouse itself in...

Breaking

Artificial | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

The End of The World as we Know it:...

Ray Gunn | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

An Open and Shut Case: Bird’s Passion Project Feels...

Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

A Heavy Toll: Shirai’s Artful Take on the Body...

Interview: Virginie Efira – All of a Sudden

In All of a Sudden (read review), Virginie Efira delivers...
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