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 Heart Machine | Review

Feel It In Your Heart Beat: Wigon’s Debut Explores Jagged, Media-Moderated Romance Film critic Zachary Wigon makes his directorial and screenwriting debut with The Heart...

Life of Riley | Review

Time to Leave: Alain Resnais’ Elegant Swan Song Alain Resnais, that reluctant member of the French New Wave, passed away in March of 2014, not...

Stonehearst Asylum | Review

Crazy in Love: Anderson’s Gothic Sprinkled Romance Deserves to be Tarred and Feathered Fresh off the surprise box office success of 2013’s Halle Berry headlined...

Exists | Review

The Pictures Got Small: Sanchez Unwisely Revisits Found Footage The co-director of 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, Eduardo Sanchez, returns to the fold of the...

Interview: Gregg Araki – White Bird in a Blizzard

We sat down with director Gregg Araki at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival after the premiere of his new film, White Bird in a...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden

The second Japanese filmmaker to premiere in the competition...

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...
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