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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5 Broken Cameras | Review

Observational Politics: Burnat & Davidi’s Document of Strife Assertively observational is one way to describe Emad Burnat’s debut, 5 Broken Cameras, winner of the World...

Mighty Fine | Review

Mighty Clichéd: Goodstein’s Debut a Muted Effort We’ve Seen Before Oh the glorious 1970’s, how we love to explore the vaguely outlined state of mind...

The Color Wheel | 2nd Review

A sibling rivalry relationship film about a brother and sister that can’t seem to get along, yet can’t find anyone else to remotely understand...

Hysteria | Review

Your Mind’s in Disturbia: Tanya Wexler Gives Us a Lobotomized History of the Vibrator Another example of boring, banal people ruining potentially great ideas has...

Elena | Review

A Touch of Class: Zvyagintsev’s latest slow burn reaches a masterful boil. Over the past decade, one of the most celebrated new filmmakers to come...

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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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