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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Das Licht | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Wasting Electricity: Tykwer Illuminates a Narrative Void Despite revealing itself to be an interconnected rumination on aspects of the soul, Tom Tykwer’s Das Licht (The...

Parthenope | Review

The Boring & Beautiful: Sorrentino’s Tone Deaf Portrait of a Lady It’s unfortunate no one’s as likely to be infatuated with the eponymous Parthenope (pronounced...

Marcello Mio | Review

In the Name of the Father: Honore Pays Homage via Identity Crisis “I only exist when I am working on a film,” Marcello Mastroianni...

Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review

Ripe Fruits: Kanawade Taps the Bittersweet Rind of Going Home Again While there’s been an uptick in contemporary LGBTQ+ films from India over the past...

Sauna | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review

Love Me If You Dare: Broe Explores Love in a Hopeless Place Harlan Ellison’s publication Love Ain’t Nothing But Sex Misspelled might be a more...

Breaking

Black Tea | Review

Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew The level...

Philosopher’s Zone: Ryusuke Hamaguchi Has Virginie Efira & Tao Okamoto Exchange in ‘All of the Sudden’

Finally one Paris-based project might have leap-frogged another (Our...
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