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: #23. The Dreams of a Few – Michel Franco

The Dreams of a Few Mexican director Michel Franco will shortly move into production on his sixth feature, The Dreams of a Few (Lo que algunos...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #24. Wicked Games (Böse Spiele) – Ulrich Seidl

Wicked Games Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl returns to his first piece of narrative filmmaking since the unspooling of his phenomenal Paradise Trilogy six years ago...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #25. Malmkrog – Cristi Puiu

Malmkrog As we await the production of Romanian auteur Cristi Puiu’s Hora Staccato (which was announced as a project around the same time Sieranevada went...

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...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Ira Sachs’ ‘The Man I Love’

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Emmanuel Marre’s ‘Notre Salut’

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