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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Arcadia | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

None of Us Strangers: Zois Probes Unrest of Our Shadows “It is a defect of God’s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to...

From Hilde, With Love | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Germany, Pale Mother: Dresen Locates the Good Germans of WWII It comes as no surprise an old-fashioned director such Andreas Dresen is adept at making...

My Favorite Cake | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Layer Cake: Moghaddam & Sanaeeha Find Love in a Hopeless Place If ever there were a film depicting how one cannot have their cake and...

The Editorial Office | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Winds of War: Bondarchuk Straddles a World On a Wire While it should play like an absurdist black comedy, Roman Bondarchuk’s sophomore narrative feature...

Perdidos en la noche (Lost in the Night) | Review

Night Moves: Escalante Cultivates a Moody, Capricious Mystery Replete with a slew of customary features encountered in a fatalistic film noir, Amat Escalante’s fifth feature,...

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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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