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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Criterion Collection: The Big City | Blu-ray Review

Criterion brings two of auteur Satyajit Ray’s early 60s works to the collection this month with Charulata (1964) and The Big City (1963), both...

Terraferma | Review

Solid Ground: Crialese’s Heartfelt Message Movie In his fourth feature film, Emanuele Crialese tackles issues of immigration and the inhumanity that transpires from man-made laws...

Lovelace | Review

Deep Throat’s Journey: Epstein & Friedman’s Porn Star Biopic By-the-Numbers In their first outing not placing significant focus on the recuperation of queer subjects or...

Drug War | Review

Don’t Say No: To Revitalizes Cops & Robbers Genre There’s a strong possibility that Drug War may stand as (or at least be vying for)...

Ritual: A Psychomagic Story | 2013 Fantasia Review

Psychobabble: Brazzale & Immesi Debut Fails to Spellbind Despite its potentially intriguing title, Ritual: A Psychomagic Story, the debut of co-directors Giulia Brazzale and Luca...

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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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