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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Some Velvet Morning | Review

Women Are From Velvet: Labute’s Latest Chapter in Power Struggles of the Sexes Its title recalling that late 60’s psychedelic pop song from Nancy Sinatra...

Here Comes the Devil | Review

Lock Your Souls Up: Bogliano’s Latest a Decent But Frayed Exercise Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s tenth feature film, Here Comes the Devil finally shows the Argentinean...

S#x Acts | Review

Sextette: Gurfinkel’s Debut an Uncomfortable Sashay into Female Victimhood Exuding enough uncomfortable finesse to be ranked as one of several cinematic explorations that appear to...

Caught In the Web | Review

Once Upon a Time, in the Digital Age…: Chen’s Latest a Message Heavy Oddity A critique of the hounding one sidedness of the omnipresent media...

Diamond on Vinyl | Review

Sound Off: Hughto’s Film Explores Artificiality of Performance and Interaction to Varying Effect It’s unfortunate that director J.R. Hughto’s sophomore effort, Diamond on Vinyl never...

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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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