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: #144. The Seven Last Words – Multiple Directors

The Seven Last Words Canadian filmmaker, musician and composer Kaveh Nabatian assembles six directors beside himself for the multidisciplinary omnibus project The Seven Last Words....

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #145. Paradise Hills – Alice Waddington

Paradise Hills Producer and editor Alice Waddington makes her directorial debut with the fantasy/sci-fi film Paradise Hills, a US-Spanish co-production which she wrote alongside Brian...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #146. I’m No Longer Here – Fernando Frias

I’m No Longer Here Mexico City’s Fernando Frias has completed his sophomore feature Ya no estoy aqui (I’m No Longer Here), which was part of the 2014...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #147. Curiosa – Lou Jeunet

Curiosa French director Lou Jeunet makes her directorial debut with Curiosa, produced by Olivier Delbosc for Curiosa Films. Lensed by Simon Roca (9 Fingers, 2017),...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #148. Koko-di Koko-da – Johannes Nyholm

Koko-di Koko-da Sweden’s Johannes Nyholm returns with his highly anticipated sophomore film Koko-di Kojo-da, which the director produced alongside co-producer Maria Moller Christofferson. His cast...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Koji Fukada’s ‘Nagi Notes’

Koji Fukada emerged as one of the major voices...

A Woman’s Life (La Vie d’une femme) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Things to Come: Bourgeois-Tacquet Explores an Affair to Remember Crimes...

Nagi Notes | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Only the Lonely: Fukada Explores Constructions of Identity Japanese auteur...
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