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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Devil’s Pass | Review

Devil May Care: Harlin Gets on the Found Footage Train Renny Harlin, a name synonymous with big budgeted 90s action flicks (and, debatably, the demise...

Savannah | Review

Fare is Fowl: Haywood-Carter’s Dire Return to Directing Annette Haywood-Carter, perhaps best known for her 1996 directorial debut Foxfire, an adaption of a Joyce Carol...

The Grandmaster | Review

Vertical Flow: Style Vs. Substance Vs. Wong Kar Wai Sporting a lusty gestational period of something like sixteen years and taking nearly six years to...

Drinking Buddies | Review #2

Friendly Persuasion: Swanberg Hones His Craft One of the most notable members of the Mumblecore crew, the often factious Joe Swanberg, at long last seems...

The Frozen Ground | Review

Cold Case Files: Walker’s Debut Unexpectedly Grounded Nothing beats the successful defiance of negative assumption and low expectation, and with that in mind, director/screenwriter Scott...

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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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