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 Taste of Things | Review

Where’s the Beef?: Tran Anh Hung Activates the Salivary Glands Gastronomy has never seemed so forlornly romantic as it is in Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous...

Perfect Days | Review

Road to Nowhere: Wenders Welcomes the Pleasures of a Simple Life in Quiet Drama In his most successfully realized narrative feature in years, Wim Wenders...

Disco Boy | Review

Mal Travaille: Abbruzzese Finds the Rhythm of the Night in Hypnotic Debut “E’en hell hath its peculiar laws,” remarked Faust in Goethe’s eternal classic, the...

Tótem | Review

Life and Death of the Party: Aviles’ Bustling Ensemble Piece Balances Pain & Profundity Taking place over the course of one frenetic day, Lila...

Mambar Pierrette | Review

In Fabric: Mbakam Conveys a Season’s Struggles in Cameroon “In the ant’s house, the dew is a flood,” might be the proverbial dilemma faced by...

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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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