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 Settlers | Review

Once Upon a Time in Chile: Haberle Crafts Colonialist Past as a Vicious Western A quote from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia opens Felipe Gálvez’s sinister...

Ferrari | Review

I Got a Fast Car: Mann Gets Glossy with Longstanding Labor of Love For his first theatrical release in eight years and his second biopic...

Memory | Review

Remembrance of Things Past: Franco Bargains for Benevolence in Purgative Love Story “Memory is something so complex that no list of all its attributes could...

A Male (Un Varón) | Review

Wild in the Streets: Hernandez Explores Toxic Trifecta of Violence, Masculinity and Poverty in Dour Debut With a streetwise miserabilism as virile as anything from...

Poor Things | Review

The Story of O: Lanthimos Mesmerizes with Fiercely Compelling Frankenstein Tale “Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for...

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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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