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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BlackBerry | Review

Hold the Phone: Johnson Delivers the Ballad of the BlackBerry Exposing the accidental alchemy which generated the titular BlackBerry, the world’s first Smartphone (and as...

Monica | Review

Portrait of a Lady: Pallaoro Quietly Searches for Grace in Profound Reconciliation There’s a relentless, nearly crushing sense of heartache girding Andrea Pallaoro’s Monica, his...

R.M.N. | Review

On a Racist Day You Can See Forever: Mungiu Confronts Nationalism in Fractious Drama On the surface, R.M.N., the latest feature from Romanian New Wave...

Winter Boy (Le Lycéen) | Review

Hazy Shade of Winter: Honore Deals with a Death in the Family in Sincere Coming-of-Age Christophe Honoré has built an intricate filmography on the backs...

Interview: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson – Beautiful Beings

In anticipation of the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, I conversed with Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson, whose sophomore film Beautiful Beings is Iceland’s official submission in...

Breaking

La bola negra | Review

The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the...

A Long Winter | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

A Gentle Thaw: Haigh’s Measured Drama is Glacial but...

Animol | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

Mismanaged Masculinity: Walters’ Gritty Debut Lacks Impactful Style Over...

Artificial | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

The End of The World as we Know it:...
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