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:

The Dreamed Path | 2016 Toronto Int. Film Festival Review

Scenes from a Fugue State: Schanelec Returns with Abstract Continuum of Dissolved Relationships “I don’t know where to put myself,” says a character at one...

City of Tiny Lights | 2016 Toronto Int. Film Festival Review

Farewell, My Lovely: Travis Tries Urban Neo Noir in Prosaic Adaptation One gets the sense the source novel by Patrick Neate is a bit more...

Daguerrotype | 2016 Toronto Int. Film Festival Review

Spirits of the Dead: Kurosawa Continues Ghostly Leitmotifs in First French Language Film Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa makes a surprise venture into French language cinema...

Godless | 2016 Toronto Int. Film Festival Review

Just a Slob Like One of Us: Petrova Paints Bleak Portrait of Bulgarian Stupor Judging from a recent slew of titles touring the festival circuit...

Orphan | 2016 Toronto Int. Film Festival Review

Woman Thou Art Loosed: Des Pallieres Disorientates with Fractured Character Portrait Between constantly shifting time periods and abrupt transitions from one clutch of characters to...

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2026 Eurimages: Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri & Camille Vidal-Naquet Land Coin

Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia...

The Most Precious Of Cargoes | Review

The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in...

Romería | Review

Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction After...
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