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: #15. Erick Zonca’s Black River

Black River Director: Erick Zonca Writer: Erick Zonca, Lou de Fanget Signolet French director Erick Zonca scored his most critically acclaimed hit with his 1998 debut The...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #16. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The Killing of a Sacred Deer Director: Yorgos Lanthimos. Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos Following the success of 2015’s The Lobster, Greek Weird Wave forefather Yorgos Lanthimos...

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),...

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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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