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: #95. Cosmogonie – Vincent Paronnaud

French director Vincent Paronnaud is best known as an animator, having co-directed two films with Marjane Satrapi. The two parted ways following 2011’s Chicken...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #96. Atarrabi & Mikelats – Eugène Green

Atarrabi & Mikelats US born French filmmaker Eugène Green’s eighth feature will be Atarrabi & Mikelats, produced by Julien Naveau (Evolution, 2015) of Noodles Production...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #97. The Father – Florian Zeller

The Father French playwright Florian Zeller makes his directorial debut in 2020 with UK production The Father (of note, he directed a stage version of...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #98. Distancia de rescate – Claudia Llosa

Distancia de rescate Peru’s Claudia Llosa teams with Netflix for her fourth feature, Fever Dream, produced by Mark Johnson and Tom Williams in conjunction with...

Criterion Collection: Tunes of Glory (1960) | Blu-Ray Review

Ronald Neame remains somewhat of an underrated, incredibly multi-faceted figure from the annals of classic British cinema. Beginning as a writer/producer/cinematographer for David Lean...

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2026 Cannes: Mysius, Kreutzer, Harari, Grisebach, Herry, Bourgeois-Taquet Among New Faces in the Palme d’Or Comp

A competition section of (currently) twenty-one features with, according...

2026 Cannes: Nicolas Winding Refn, Quentin Dupieux & Bertrand Mandico on the Croisette

The Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and...

2026 Le Groupe Ouest Selections: New Features by Laura Wandel, Valéry Carnoy & Léa Todorov in the Works

Located in France’s north westernmost region of Brittany, Le...
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