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:

Elsa and Fred | Review

Anything Elsa: Radford’s Remake Rough Around the Edges English director Michael Radford, still best known for earlier works 1984 (1984) and the critical darling...

Jessabelle | Review

Ring Her Bell: Greutert Steps Outside Franchise For Promising Results Considering that Jessabelle is directed by editor and eventual director of two Saw films, Kevin...

Interstellar | Review

Don’t Let’s Ask For the Moon: Nolan’s Space Opera for the Ages At last divorcing himself from the omnipotent shadows of Batman, director Christopher Nolan’s...

Before I Go To Sleep | Review

Sleep, My Love: Joffe’s Effective Woman in Peril Thriller Adapting S.J. Watson’s pulpy novel Before I Go to Sleep for his second feature film (2010’s...

Winter in the Blood | Review

Blood Simple: The Smith’s Sophomore Effort a Lyrical, Uneven Production It’s been well over a decade now since their first film, 2002’s The Slaughter Rule,...

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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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