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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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...

Vamps | Review

Girls Just Wanna Have Blood: Heckerling’s Vampire Comedy a Light Bite Director Amy Heckerling reunites with her Clueless (1995) star for a female vampire buddy...

Criterion Collection: Rosemary’s Baby | Blu-ray review

Just in time for Halloween, Criterion has remastered what’s long been culturally considered one of the most notable pieces of horror film making in...

Sleep Tight | Review

The Bed Bugs Bite: Balaguero’s Latest a Creepy Premise with Dubious Motives Sleep Tight Jaume Balageuro, leaving behind the REC franchise (which his co-director, Paco...

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Interview: Marine Atlan – La Gravida | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

This year, the Critics' Week gifted us a feature...

Interview: Abinash Bikram Shah – Elephants in the Fog | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Making his second splash in Cannes after seeing his...

Interview: Rakan Mayasi – Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Set within a tightly knit Bedouin community in Lebanon,...
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