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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The Theory of Everything | Review

Scenes From a Marriage: Marsh’s Distilled Look at Physicist Stephen Hawking Spanning twenty five years in their lives together and based on the memoir Travelling...

A Merry Friggin’ Christmas | Review

Blight Christmas: Shapeero’s Debut is Not the Most Wonderful Time of the Year There’s a reason why Tristram Shapeero’s film debut A Merry Friggin’ Christmas...

Open Windows | Review

Peeping Tom: Vigalondo’s Virtual Voyeurism Thriller Too Wrapped Up in Tech In the barest possible sense, Nacho Vigalondo’s latest film, Open Windows, can perhaps be...

Viva la Liberta | Review

Dead Ringers: Ando’s Self-Adapted Switcheroo a Highlight for Servillo But Little Else Politics and doppelgangers have hewn a surprisingly wide berth throughout decades of cinema,...

Penance | Review

Till I Can Get My Satisfaction: Kurosawa’s Striking Psychosexual Marathon Past traumas hopelessly infecting the present factor significantly in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s monolithic psychosexual thriller, Penance,...

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Parallel Tales (Histoires parallèles) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Double Life of the Voyeurist: Farhadi Fails with...

Fatherland | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Every Mann for Themselves: Pawlikowski Remains Chilly with Cold...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’

After gaining international recognition with Berlinale entries in Silver...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’

Post My Summer of Love (2004) and The Woman...
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