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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Kid | AFI Fest 2012 Review

Hard Knock Life: Troch Returns With Another Exquisite Examination on Anguish Actress turned director Fien Troch returns with her third feature film, Kid, another beautifully...

Everybody In Our Family | AFI Fest 2012 Review

Out of the Bedroom & Into the Streets: Jude’s Latest a Bitter Drama of Cyclical Misery Now at the end of a decade in existence,...

This Must Be the Place | Review

But I Guess I’m Already There: Why is Sorrentino’s Strange, Offbeat English Language Debut…? The promising combination of Italian master Paolo Sorrentino’s English language debut...

Festival of Lights | Review

Lights Out: Prasad’s Feature Debut a Messy, Stagnant Immigration Drama Previously working as a documentary filmmaker, director Shundell Prasad makes her fiction feature debut with...

The Bay | Review

Bay Day: Levinson Mines Horror Genre to Surprising Effect In what may be one of the year’s most curious entries in the horror genre, The...

Breaking

Youth (Homecoming) | Review

Last Train to Zhili: Bing Brings Youth Cycle to...

Youth (Hard Times) | Review

Make the Best of Us: Bing’s ‘Youth’ Cycle Expands...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Laxe, Mendonça Filho, Panahi & Trier Reign Supreme

The final grades trickled in and finally, our top...

The Mastermind | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Thieves Like Us: Reichardt Wanders with an Inscrutable Slacker Abstract...
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