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:

The Other Woman | Review

Birds of a Feather: Cassavetes’ Brings Generic Chops to Predictable Comedy Long before the inevitable denouement of the vainglorious adulterer catalyzing the female frenzied revenge...

For a Woman | 2014 COLCOA Review

Mother Load: Kurys Revisits Plight of Parents in Post WWII France For those familiar with the work of director Diane Kurys, the material that inspired...

We Love You, You Bastard (Salaud, on t’aime) | 2014 COLCOA Review

A Man and His Women: Lelouch’s Latest a Lumbering, Bloated Ensemble Nearing his 80’s and with over fifty credits to his name, Oscar and Palme...

Last Passenger | Review

Runaway Train: Nooshin’s Banal Debut Goes Wrong Way on a One Way Track What promises to be a nimble, low budget whodunit aboard a high...

Who is Dayani Cristal? | Review

Body Talk: Bernal & Silver’s Doc an Empathetic Experiment A three pronged approach to uncovering the identity of an illegal immigrant’s corpse in the Arizona...

Breaking

No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’

Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...

2026 Eurimages: Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri & Camille Vidal-Naquet Land Coin

Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia...
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