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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Magic Magic | Sundance 2013 Review

Identikit: Silva’s Eerie Genre Effort an Unsettling Throwback Harkening back to a genre of women and madness features that populated plenty of classic titles from...

Best of Fest: Nicholas’ Top Five Films from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival

#5. Stoker South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook makes his English language debut about a creepy dysfunctional family in a gothic old house from a screenplay...

Body Language: Alfama Films Set to Produce Luca Guadagnino’s Body Art

It seems David Cronenberg hasn’t had enough of Don DeLillo, with Variety reporting that the director is set to go in front of the...

The Look of Love | Sundance 2013 Review

Love Hurts: Winterbottom’s Biopic a By-the-Numbers Look at London’s Infamous King of Soho Michael Winterbottom continues on with his whirlwind filmography, unleashing one of his...

Yossi | Review

Closet Space: Fox Brings a Welcome Addendum to Celebrated Film Eytan Fox’s much celebrated 2002 film, Yossi & Jaggar, concerning a passionate and secret love...

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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’

Everyone took notice with his 2006 debut Reprise, but...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Oliver Hermanus’ ‘The History of Sound’

South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus might be another newbie...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Carla Simón’s ‘Romería’

In competition film #16 of the twenty-two offerings, and...

The History of Sound | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

One Sings, the Other Doesn’t: Hermanus Plays a Tune...
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