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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The Giants | DVD Review

Painter/actor/director Bouli Lanners’ third feature, The Giants, which premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, finally gets an understated bow on DVD. Described as...

Criterion Collection: Marketa Lazarova | Blu-ray Review

You’ll be hard pressed to make a more exciting discovery than Criterion’s digital transfer of Frantisek Vlacil’s 1967 Czech classic, Marketa Lazarova. Voted the...

The Rambler | Review

Aimlessly Devoted To You: Reeder Culls More Stars and Less Sense for Sophomore Film More proof that horror as a genre has been hedged out...

Hello Herman | Review

Missed Targets: Danner’s Film After-school Special Fodder Reveling in the fact that it was made before the latest rash of mass shootings, including 2012’s Aurora,...

The Prey | Review

The Chase Begins: Valette’s Latest Shows Promise, Falls Short French director Eric Valette, whose 2002 debut Malefique was an overbaked grindhouse misfire (even though it...

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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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