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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Inescapable | Review

Inexorable Void: Nada’s Latest an Ineffectively Staged Political Thriller Following a quietly effective 2009 romantic drama, Cairo Time, which featured a touching and gently handled...

Bless Me, Ultima | Review

Bless This Mess: Franklin’s Period Piece Strangles Intriguing Premise Carl Franklin returns with Bless Me, Ultima, his first feature since 2003’s Out of Time. An...

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete | Sundance 2013 Review

Everybody Knows: Tillman’s Latest a Melodramatic Exercise of Youth in the Projects Director George Tillman Jr. takes a step away from mainstream fodder for an...

Criterion Collection: The Ballad of Narayama | Blu-ray Review

Keisuke Kinoshita’s 1958 classic The Ballad of Narayama gets the Criterion treatment, an experimental film featuring the use of one of Japan’s signature cultural...

Small Apartments | Review

Neighboring Groans: Akerland’s Tone Deaf Latest Cranks Manic Quirk Swedish filmmaker Jonas Akerlund returns with his third feature, Small Apartments, based on a novel by...

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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,...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just an Accident’

Jafar Panahi might be more synonymous with Berlin say...

Aisha Can’t Fly Away | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Buliana Simon Shines In Gritty Immigrant Story That Struggles...
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