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: # 96. Lav Diaz’s When the Waves Are Gone

When the Waves Are Gone Director: Lav Diaz Writer: Lav Diaz Lav Diaz had a sterling 2016. After winning the Alfred Bauer Award for his eight hour...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 97. Ciro Guerra’s Birds of Passage

Birds of Passage Director: Ciro Guerra Writer: Ciro Guerra Ciro Guerra’s 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent won top honors out of Directors’ Fortnight and was the...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 98. Santiago Mitre’s The Summit

The Summit Director: Santiago Mitre Writer: Santiago Mitre, Mariano Llinas A new major player on Argentina’s cinema scene is Santiago Mitre, who won the Grand Jury Prize...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 99. F.J. Ossang’s 9 Fingers

9 Fingers Director: F.J. Ossang Writer: F.J. Ossang Cult filmmaker F.J. Ossang returns after a seven year break with his fifth film, 9 Fingers. His 1985 debut...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 100. Urszula Antoniak’s Beyond Words

Beyond Words Director: Urszula Antoniak Writer: Urszula Antoniak Polish director Urszula Antoniak won Best First Feature (and several other prizes) at Locarno for her 2009 debut Nothing...

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Two Prosecutors | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’

The Belarusian born, Ukraine filmmaker has loaded up the...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’

A little bit after this year's Berlinale, there was...

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Review

Tom Cruise Can’t Stunt His Way Out Of A...
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