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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Interview: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel & Vera Gemma – Vera

Premiering at the 2022 Venice Film Festival in the Horizons sidebar (where it was awarded Best Director and Best Actress), Tiza Covi and Rainer...

Interview: Tinatin Kajrishvili & Lasha Khalvashi – Citizen Saint

Premiering in competition at this year's Karlovy Film Festival, Tinatin Karishvili's third feature Citizen Saint is set in a small mining town, where a...

May December | Review

Tarnished Angels: Haynes Curates a New Dazzling Cult Classic Had Brian De Palma been keen on rehashing Douglas Sirk instead of Hitchcock, he might have...

Fallen Leaves | Review

All the Leaves Are Brown: Kaurismaki’s Song for the Lonely Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki adds a fourth chapter to his thematic Proletariat Trilogy with...

Youth (Spring) | Review

The Workshop Around the Corner: Bing Threads Through Textile Manufacturing Having filmed from 2014 to 2019 in the city of Zhili, Youth (Spring), one...

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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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