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 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #63. Joachim Lafosse’s Keep Going

Keep Going Belgian director Joachim Lafosse knows something about keep on keeping on, forging quickly ahead with his eighth feature Keep Going just as his...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #64. Ulrich Köhler’s In My Room

In My Room It’s been a seven-year absence for German director Ulrich Köhler, who’s third feature Sleeping Sickness netted the Silver Bear at the 2011...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #65. Kim Ki-duk’s Human, Space, Time and Human

Human, Space, Time and Human Perennial South Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk is back with his twenty-first narrative feature Human, Space, Time and Human, which concerns...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #66. Brian De Palma’s Domino

Domino It’s been six years and several failed projects later, but American auteur Brian De Palma is back with his latest, Domino, a Copenhagen set...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #67. Krzysztof Zanussi’s Ether

Ether Polish auteur Krzysztof Zanussi is well into his sixth decade of narrative filmmaking with an ambitious new period piece, Ether. After working in short...

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2026 Cannes Film Festival – Checklist of Our Reviews

IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]

The jury of Leila Bekhti and peers Thomas Cailley,...
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