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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Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #5. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant

All things documentary, foreign and American independent film are what the staff unabashedly bleeds for here at IONCINEMA.com. Film snobbery aside, we've identified twenty-five studio film offerings...

Son of a Gun | Review

Gunsmoke: Avery’s Able-bodied Debut Dulled by Familiar Tropes The less familiar you are with the dramatic crime genre, perhaps the more engaged you’ll be with...

Involuntary | Review

Cold Cuts: Östlund Examines Behavior Unawares in Astute Sophomore Feature While Ruben Östlund’s 2004 feature debut The Guitar Mongoloid first played with examinations of human...

Human Capital | Review

For What It’s Worth: Virzi’s Leftist Neo-Noir a Capitalistic Parable Receiving its North American premiere last spring at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, where it...

Gone Girl | Blu-ray Review

Arriving on Blu-ray just prior to the Academy announces its nominations, where the film is sure to pick up some nominations despite going home...

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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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