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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Broken | Review

Slipping Down Life: Norris’ Debut Steeps Notable Performances in Melodrama Famed theater director Rufus Norris makes his cinematic directorial debut with an adaptation of Daniel...

Beneath | Review

Congrats Grads: Fessenden Terrorizes Teens with Latest Environmental Horror According to the films of Larry Fessenden, Mother Nature poses the greatest threat of all to...

Computer Chess | Review #2

Check Mix: Bujalski’s Latest an Odd, Enigmatically Dry Experiment For his fourth feature film, indie film director Andrew Bujalski tackles the period peace, revisiting an...

Pieta | Blu-ray Review

Yes, that’s right, Kim Ki-duk’s latest film, Pieta, is thus named for the famed sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of...

Vanishing Waves | DVD Review

The travails of the neuron-transfer scientist get swirled into a surreal kaleidoscope of Eros and sci-fi in Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte’s sophomore feature, Vanishing...

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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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