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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Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #16. Viens je t’emmène – Alain Guiraudie

Viens je t’emmène / Come, I Will Take You There For his sixth film, French auteur Alain Guiraudie tackles the strangeness of more intimate human...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #17. How Do You Live? – Hayao Miyazaki

Kimi-tachi wa Dō Ikiru ka / How Do You Live? With 2013’s The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki, arguably the most influential anime director of all...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #18. Inexorable – Fabrice Du Welz

Inexorable Hot on the heels of his Locarno debuted Adoration (read review), the final chapter in his thematic Ardennes trilogy, Belgian auteur Fabrice du Welz...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #19. La caja – Lorenzo Vigas

La caja Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas became an immediate international director of note after winning the Golden Lion at the 2015 Venice Film Festival for...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #20. Untitled Hong Sang-soo Project

Untitled Hong Sang-soo Project Having spent 2019 embroiled in widely publicized divorce court proceedings, 2019 came and went without a new film project from South...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Were Fatherland & Fjord Tops of the Fest? We Compare Grids!

Fatherland and Fjord towered above the rest on our...

The Birthday Party (Histoires de la nuit) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Bird on a Wire: The Past Haunts the Present...

Coward | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Bent Knee, Limp Wrist: Dhont Explores Love at the...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Fatherland & Fjord Rated Top Films of Cannes!

The Palme d'Or winner and the Best Director winners...
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