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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We’re the Millers | Review

Mill on the Doss: Thurber’s Arbitrary Comedy Rests on Laurels of Cast Charm Filmmaker Rawson Marshall Thurber, whose directorial debut was the Ben Stiller goof-fest...

I Give It a Year | Review #2

Give it a Rest: Mazer’s Pedestrian Debut Examines Marriages, Relationships, Mediocrity The most surprising item concerning I Give It a Year, a purposefully unromantic comedy...

Jug Face | Review

Face of Another: Kinkle’s Backwoods Horror a Promising, Faulty Debut Like a low-fi hybrid of Winter’s Bone and Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery comes Chad Crawford...

Kid-Thing | Review

Another Little Girl Down the Lane... While the latest feature length film from the Zellner Brothers, Kid-Thing, may not be meant for children, its stammered...

We’ve got Plans for NEXT Weekend; Blue Caprice, It Felt Like Love & A Teacher Part of Blossoming Sundance Sidebar

I'm pretty sure that four years back when Trevor Groth and John Cooper (Sundance programming tandem who overhauled, switched over and re-defined the Spotlight...

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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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