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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Out of the Furnace | Review

Fire Walk: Cooper’s Sophomore Effort a Somber, Fatalistic Malaise Director Scott Cooper returns with Out of the Furnace, his first film since his Oscar winning...

Domestic | Review

Creature Discomfort: Sitaru Returns to Familial Unrest For his third feature film, Domestic, Romanian director Adrian Sitaru returns to the blackly comedic potential of familial...

Love Building | Review

Faulty Blueprint: Rugina’s Debut Pleasures the Crowd, Numbs the Mind A certifiable hit at the Romanian box office, Iulia Rugina’s directorial debut, Love Building has...

Criterion Collection: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Blu-ray Review

Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film in 1970, as well as the Grand Jury and FIPRESCI Prize Winner at the Cannes Film Festival,...

General Della Rovere | Blu-ray Review

Back in 2009, the Criterion collection released Roberto Rossellini’s 1959 film General Della Rovere on DVD, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice...

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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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