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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Dossier 137 | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Investigation of Citizens Above Suspicion: Moll Persists with Police Procedural Dominik Moll reunites with his usual collaborating scribe Gilles Marchand in Dossier 137, their third...

L’Engloutie (The Girl in the Snow) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Snow Way: Hémon Delivers Unwanted Help in the High Alps A young, idealistic school teacher almost literally chooses her hill to die on in Louise...

Two Prosecutors | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A good man is hard to find, and if one were to be found, he’s likely...

Sound of Falling | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Schilinksi Paints a Microcosm of Misogyny The original title of Mascha Schilinski’s sophomore feature was The Doctor...

Enzo | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Call Me By Your Pain: Campillo Gently Guides Cantet’s Swan Song Laurent Cantet was a filmmaker consistently concerned with humans existing on the margins, those...

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Hot Milk | Review

The Eternal Daughter: Lenkiewicz Ladles the Milk of Sorrows Screenwriter...

Interview: Ariane Labed – September Says

A pivotal figure in the Greek Weird Wave, Ariane...

Interview: Jessica Palud – Being Maria

In 2018, political journalist and writer Vanessa Schneider released...
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