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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Turn Me On, Dammit! | Review

I Am Curious...Colorblind: Jacobsen Manually Depicts Teenage Code There’s many a coming of age tale about young women, but, as if often the case, the...

The Hunter | Review

Nettheim Delivers Another Australian Entry about the Tantalizing Tasmanian Tiger After working in television for the past decade, director Daniel Nettheim returns with The Hunter,...

Darling Companion | Review

In Need of Assisted Living: Kasdan’s Dog of a Film Brown-noses the Geriatric Crowd Was it the Nancy Myer’s curse that derailed the trajectory of...

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Titanic Ocean | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Deep Sea, Baby: Kotzamani Goes Down Where It’s Wetter Greek...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Bitter Christmas’

The only title to have had its world premiere...

Minotaur | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Cranes Aren’t Flying: Zvyagintsev Unleashes Primordial Tendencies “They always...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Andrey Zvyagintsev’s ‘Minotaur’

We nearly lost this master filmmaker during the Covid...
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