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: #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...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #22. Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete

Lean on Pete Director: Andrew Haigh Writer: Andrew Haigh British filmmaker Andrew Haigh may possibly unveil two new projects this year, the first being Lean on Pete,...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #23. Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria

Suspiria Director: Luca Guadagnino Writer: David Kajganich Considering his dry spell between 2009's I Am Love and 2015's A Bigger Splash, it's hard to believe we're going...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #24. Bruno Dumont’s Jeannette

Jeannette Director: Bruno Dumont Writer: Bruno Dumont French director Bruno Dumont has weaned himself off naturalism and will now focus on comedy, where he claims one can...

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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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