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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OldBoy | Review

Let’s Do It Again: Lee’s Reimagining Imaginative Enough Call it what you will, reimagining, reinterpretation, or remake, Spike Lee’s Oldboy can’t escape its describing root...

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom | Review

Half Nelson: Chadwick’s Biopic Stretched Thin An attempt to cover fifty years in the life of South African President Nelson Mandela in the time span...

Philomena | Review

Catholic Kisses: Frears’ Returns with a Loveable Crowd Pleaser Just when you thought that Stephen Frears’ latest film, Philomena, would be yet another questionable exercise...

Delivery Man | Review

The Americanization of Fertility: Scott’s Sterile Remake a Stale Venture With Delivery Man, which is a remake of his 2011 French Canadian hit, Starbuck, director...

Criterion Collection: City Lights | Blu-ray Review

The biggest surprise about this month’s release of Charles Chaplin’s City Lights (1931) is that it wasn’t already a part of Criterion’s prestigious collection....

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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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