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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Thy Womb | TIFF 2012 Review

Womb Doom: Mendoza Gives Us Another Poverty Stricken Filipino Narrative Quickly assuming the stature of one of the most important directors from the Philippines, Brillante Mendoza...

God Loves Caviar | TIFF 2012 Review

And Hates the Proletariat: Greek Costume Drama Stinks to High Heaven Greek director Yannis Smaragdis began his career in the mid 1970’s as a writer/director,...

Everybody Has a Plan | TIFF 2012 Review

Best Laid Plans: Piterbarg Gets Double the Mortensen in Debut Argentinean director Ana Piterbarg nabs Viggo Mortensen for dual roles in her debut, a slow...

Byzantium | TIFF 2012 Review

My Favorite Sister Daughter: Jordan Hits Up the Lady Vamps Boy it’s hard to add anything new to the vampire genre, once a horror staple...

Criterion Collection: Umberto D. | Blu-ray Review

Perhaps remembered foremost for directing what is considered by many to be one of the best films of all time, Bicycle Thieves (1948), one...

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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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