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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Saving Mr. Banks | Review

Sugartime: Hancock Syrupy Recount Gets the Disney Dress Up There’s a fascinating story lurking somewhere in John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks, but it’s relegated...

What’s In a Name? | Review

By Any Other Name: Patellerie & Delaporte’s Debut a Comfortably Forced Farce Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patelliere’s co-directorial debut, What’s in a...

Hours | Review

Katrina and the Hours: Walker’s One Man Show a Dismal Drizzle With his unfortunate and untimely death so recent in our memories, there is bound...

Night Train to Lisbon | Review

Ride on Time: August and Another Puerile Adaptation It’s evident that Danish director Bille August favors helming adaptations of challenging novels, though the end result...

American Hustle | Review

Hustle Bustle: Russell Returns With Surprising Verve Just when you thought David O. Russell’s American Hustle might bow as an attempt at an awards friendly...

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2026 Cannes Film Festival – Checklist of Our Reviews

IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]

The jury of Leila Bekhti and peers Thomas Cailley,...
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