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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Weightless | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

The Big Empty: Fgaier Crash Lands with Sentimental Drivel For her directorial debut Weightless (Sulla terra leggeri), film editor Sara Fgaier opens her narrative with a...

Transamazonia | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Smite Material: Marais Unearths Jungle Cliches It’s been over a decade since South African director Pia Marais’ last feature, and she’s spent six years working...

Salve Maria | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

The Good Mother: Coll Examines Motherhood as Psychological Trauma Seeing as director Mar Coll punctuates her third feature Salve Maria with chapters utilizing quotes from...

Mexico 86 | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Coup de Madre: Díaz Revisits Violent Turmoils with Intimate Familial Drama Director César Díaz continues his cinematic exploration of Guatemala’s brutal civil war, considered the...

Death Will Come (La Mort viendra) | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

And Bear Your Eyes: Hochhäusler’s Grim Sketch of a Tangled Underworld Death, it seems, does not quite become Christoph Hochhäusler, the Berlin School alum making...

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Interview: Marine Atlan – La Gravida | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

This year, the Critics' Week gifted us a feature...

Interview: Abinash Bikram Shah – Elephants in the Fog | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Making his second splash in Cannes after seeing his...

Interview: Rakan Mayasi – Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Set within a tightly knit Bedouin community in Lebanon,...
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