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:

Bastarden (The Promised Land) | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

The Good Earth: Arcel Inherits the Wind with Romanticized Historical Recuperation After making his English language debut with the imperiled Stephen King adaptation The Dark...

L’ordine del tempo | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

Time After Time: Cavani Commits Time Crimes in Overwrought Farce What does time mean when we’re all out of it? Thus is the quagmire...

Comandante | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

And the Sea Will Tell: De Angelis Sells the Soft Side of Fascism Napolitano director Edoardo De Angelis embarks on his most lavish offering to...

Piaffe | Review

Horse Girl: Oren Gets Hot to Trot in Strange, Alluring Debut What is it about horses, exactly, and their tacit parallels with subterranean conduits of...

Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation | Review

Death in the Garden: Chebbi Debuts Eerie, Nuanced Murder Mystery In a supremely frightening sense, the events transpiring in Ashkal (which means ‘shapes’ in Arabic) recalls...

Breaking

La bola negra | Review

The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the...

A Long Winter | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

A Gentle Thaw: Haigh’s Measured Drama is Glacial but...

Animol | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

Mismanaged Masculinity: Walters’ Gritty Debut Lacks Impactful Style Over...

Artificial | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

The End of The World as we Know it:...
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