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.

Exclusive articles:

Far From the Madding Crowd | Review

It’s All About Love: Vinterberg Revamps Hardy’s Classic Romance Inevitably, we would have seen some filmmaker tackle a revamp of Thomas Hardy’s classic 1874 novel...

The Water Diviner | Review

Turkey Dressing: Crowe’s Well-Intentioned Debut Ultimately Mundane In the comparable tradition of Mel Gibson and Kevin Costner, actor Russell Crowe makes a big budget, historically...

Blackbird | Review

The Boys in the Choir: Polk’s Antiquated Rendition of the Rural Gay Narrative The blatant underrepresentation of black gay characters in film, whatever letter they’re...

24 Days | Review

Barbarian Invasion: Arcady Hits the Headlines for Procedural Recounting a bizarre kidnapping case from 2006 that reflects the continuing cultural mutation of anti-Semitism and the...

Just Before I Go | Review

Drop in the Bucket: Cox’s Uneven Directorial Debut Actress Courtney Cox makes her directorial debut with Just Before I Go, based on the first feature...

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