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 2017: #17. Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale

The Nightingale Director: Jennifer Kent Writer: Jennifer Kent Before her notable 2014 debut The Babadook (which premiered to ecstatic review out of Sundance) had reached theatrical release,...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #18. Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story

Based on a True Story Director: Roman Polanski Writer: Olivier Assayas, Roman Polanski After some more court related issues seemingly delayed his long gestating project The Dreyfus...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #19. Ruben Ostlund’s The Square

The Square Director: Ruben Ostlund Writer: Ruben Ostlund While plans are underway for an English language remake of Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s internationally lauded Force Majeure (2014),...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #20. Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma

Roma Director: Alfonso Cuaron Writer: Alfonso Cuaron After his Oscar winning 2013 big budget Gravity, news of Mexican auteur Alfonso Cuaron’s next project has been highly anticipated....

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #21. Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau (Nighthawk)

Bacurau (Nighthawk) Director: Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles Writer: Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles Brazilian film critic turned director Kleber Mendonca Filho has become a...

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Kika | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Belle de Jour: Mourning Becomes Sex Work in Poukine’s...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Óliver Laxe’s ‘Sirat’

When he was selected for the prestigious competition section...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Dominik Moll’s ‘Dossier 137’

Known for a filmography heavy into psychological thriller portraits...

Sirat | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

A Bridge Too Far: Laxe Enters the Zone “The Zone...
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