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 Conversation: Cannes 2016 is the Year of the Cannibal

It was a markedly gruesome year on the Croisette in 2016 (including the perplexing awards recipients), with a notable slew of titles playing throughout...

The Other Side | Review

Beasts of the Southern Wild: Minervini Continues Fascination with American Rural Dysfunction One can’t help but recall the refreshing yet uncomfortably toxic memories of Harmony...

The Unknown Girl | 2016 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Guilt Trip: The Dardennes’ Add a Touch of Genre to Collective Guilt For better or worse, we already know what kind of quiet poignancy...

It’s Only the End of the World | 2016 Cannes Film Festival Review

Don’t They Know?: Dolan Delivers a Dud with Familial Drama Though no stranger to working with French stars, Quebecois filmmaker Xavier Dolan makes his first...

The Conversation: 2016 Cannes Film Fest Halfway Point Pulse

Eric Lavallee: Hello Nicholas. Yesterday we completed week one and we're close to the midway point. We've been anticipating Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann for...

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No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’

Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...

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

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