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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Locust | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

Code of Silence: KEFF Revisits Time of Turmoil For his directorial debut, KEFF revisits the pinnacle of turmoil during the 2019 Hong Kong protests as...

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

Other People’s Money: Rosselli Finds Being Criminal is Relative In keeping with a growing tradition of contemporary Argentinian cinema’s unorthodox narrative structures, editor Hernán Rosselli...

When The Light Breaks | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

Grieving Rights: Runarsson Explores Interrupted Mourning For his fourth narrative feature, Iceland’s Rúnar Rúnarsson returns to themes of emotional disruption with When the Light Breaks....

Simon of the Mountain | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Face of An(other): Luis Complicates Identity Politics Although it’s playing quite purposefully with various ambiguities and motifs, Federico Luis’ directorial debut Simon de...

Le Deuxième Acte (The Second Act) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Art of Saying Nothing: Dupieux Deconstructs Cinema Had Luis Bunuel approached conveying the reality of cinema produced by artificial intelligence, there may have been...

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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