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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To Rome With Love | Review

Roma, Ti Amo: Woody Allen Sketches Snippets of the Eternal City Say what you will about Woody Allen, but he’s had an amazing decade with...

The Tortured | Review

Apt Title Foretells Effect on its Audience: Lieberman’s Absurd Attempt at Horror Robert Lieberman’s latest film, a quaggy, moronic torture porn debacle, ironically titled The...

The Woman In The Fifth | Review

May try Your Patience to the Nth: Pawlikowski's Comeback Thriller Travels in Familiar Territory Highly esteemed director Pawel Pawlikowski’s first feature since 2004’s excellent My...

Extraterrestrial | Review

Perhaps not as extra as it thinks it is: Vigalondo's Sci-Fi Romance Mash-up is Forgettable The problem with Nacho Vigalondo’s sophomore feature, Extraterrestrial, is that it’s...

Americano | Review

We fell in love, but not in court: Demy References Parent's Filmography Americano, the directorial debut of actor Mathieu Demy, (son of two legendary cinematic...

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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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