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:

Les Gazelles | 2015 My French Film Festival Review

Girls Just Wanna Have: Achache’s Breezy Sophomore Feature After adapting Muriel Barbery’s celebrated novel The Hedgehog for her 2009 debut, director Mona Achache returns with...

Killers | Review

The Killers Inside Me: The Mo Bros’ International Serial Spree Directing duo Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto, better known as the Mo Brothers, team for the slice...

Song One | Review

Title Track: Barker-Froyland’s Cloying Debut Plays Familiar Tune “Sad song at night, hipster’s delight” should be the opening line in Kate Barker-Froyland’s mournful, musically inclined...

Cake | Review

Let Them Have It: Barnz Banks on Adept Aniston Grief is a prickly emotion to convey within the confines of the indie American melodrama, a...

The Duke of Burgundy | Review

The Body and the Whip: Strickland’s Sublime Homage to Erotic Cinema Beginning like something that should have been called Exploits of a Chambermaid, replete with...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Koji Fukada’s ‘Nagi Notes’

Koji Fukada emerged as one of the major voices...

A Woman’s Life (La Vie d’une femme) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Things to Come: Bourgeois-Tacquet Explores an Affair to Remember Crimes...

Nagi Notes | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Only the Lonely: Fukada Explores Constructions of Identity Japanese auteur...
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