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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Till the End of the Night | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review

Night Boos: Hochhäusler Bungles Black Market Crime Thriller Blending fatal romanticism and B-movie genre tropes, it’s not difficult to see where a certain Fassbinder sensibility...

The Survival of Kindness | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review

Lady in a Cage: de Heer’s Dystopia Explores the Enduring Echoes of Colonialism Dutch-born director Rolf de Heer has been a mainstay of Australian cinema...

Living Bad (Viver Mal) | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review

The Mirror Has Two Faces: Canijo’s Customers Are Always Blight with Inverse Melodrama “Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it...

Bad Living | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review

The Best Exotic Portugal Hotel: Canijo Examines Motherhood as Misanthropy in Masterful Familial Miasma The women handling the specialty boutique hotel in Joao Canijo’s Mal...

Le grand chariot (The Plough) | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review

Father Knows Best: Garrel’s Family Affair Flounders in Banality Although co-credited to the late, great Jean-Claude Carrière and starring a whole gaggle of the Garrel...

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2026 Eurimages: Mia Hansen-Love, Justine Triet, Bertrand Bonello & Mungiu/Uricaru Land Coin

World cinema heavyweights Mia Hansen-Love, Justine Triet and Bertrand...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Critics’ Week

The parallel selection dedicated to debut and sophomore features...
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