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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The Well Digger’s Daughter | Review

Shallow Trench: Auteuil’s Debut a Bland Mush Certainly one of the most prolific performers to come out of France over the past few decades, Daniel...

Criterion Collection: Metropolitan Blu-ray Review

With this past Spring’s release of Damsels In Distress, his first new title in thirteen years, the Criterion Collection has refurbished two Whit Stillman...

The Queen of Versailles | Review

Money Can’t Buy Class, Only Versace: Greenfield Scores a Grey Gardens Sized Gem Documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield could very well have used the classic opening...

Ballplayer: Pelotero | Review

Searching For Sugar: New Baseball Doc Fails as Expose There’s definitely nothing revolutionary about Ballplayer: Pelotero, the new documentary concerning the baseball industry in the...

Farewell, My Queen | Review

Moi Petite Reader: Underrated Jacquot Depicts Decadence on the Eve of Doom The first of underrated Gallic master Benoît Jacquot’s films to reach theaters on...

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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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