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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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Marco Van Geffen’s In Your Name

#92. Marco Van Geffen’s In Your Name Gist: Following his 2011 film Among Us, the second part of Van Geffen’s Vinex Trilogy, (revolving, facetiously, around...

2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Cattet & Forzani’s The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears

#94. Cattet & Forzani’s The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears Gist: A man’s wife disappears in Brussels under strange circumstances and is determined to...

2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Isabel Coixet’s Panda Eyes

#99. Isabel Coixet’s Panda Eyes Gist: Based on Cathy MacPhail’s young adult novel, Another Me, Coixet’s adaptation, which the director states takes its inspiration from...

The Host | Review

Disembodied: Niccol Unable to Overcome Parasitic Source Material For the sake of comparison, it’s safe to say that the latest adaptation of a Stephanie Meyer’s...

Renoir | Review

The Talent Family: Bourdos Abandons Genre for Elegant Biographical Period Piece A summer signifying the encroaching end of one artist and the birth of another...

Breaking

Romería | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction After...

Fuori | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Hoosegow Girls: Martone Pays Delicate Tribute to Goliarda Sapienza ...

It Was Just an Accident | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Phantom Limb: Panahi Treads Ripples of Retribution Jafar Panahi continues...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Mario Martone’s Fuori

In an even split, and in two different waves,...
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