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 2019: #26. Parasite – Bong Joon-ho

Parasite Bong Joon-ho returns to South Korea for his seventh feature Parasite, which is his fourth collaboration with actor Song Kang-ho in what seems to...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #27. To the Ends of the Earth – Kiyoshi Kurosawa

To the Ends of the Earth Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa shows no signs of slowing, turning to Uzbekistan for his latest feature, To the Ends...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #28. Ema – Pablo Larrain

Ema Chilean director Pablo Larrain returns to Chile for his eighth feature, this time for his first contemporary set drama in his native country with...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #29. Jeanne – Bruno Dumont

Jeanne The idiosyncratic French auteur Bruno Dumont finds himself in full sequel swing with Jeanne, a follow-up to his lauded 2017 musical Jeannette, the Childhood...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #30. Radegund – Terrence Malick

Radegund Leave it to Terrence Malick to leave us interminably wondering when and where his next completed film will surface, and his latest, the German...

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Interview: Arab Nassar – Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Over the course of their three feature films, Gaza-born...

Interview: Tawfeek Barhom – I’m Glad You’re Dead Now (Short)

From Tarik Selah's Boy from Heaven (2022) to the...

Interview: Ali Asgari – Divine Comedy

Sometimes, in a landscape where censorship and endless approvals...

Interview: Hasan Hidi – The President’s Cake

Earlier this year, first-time filmmaker Hasan Hadi arrived in...
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