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: #1. Michael Haneke’s Happy End

Happy End Director: Michael Haneke Writer: Michael Haneke At the end of 2015, after several mentions of a reunion from Isabelle Huppert, news broke of Michael Haneke’s...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #2. Carlos Reygadas’ Where Life is Born

Where Life is Born Director: Carlos Reygadas Writer: Carlos Reygadas Open couples relationships and bull breeding ranches form the backdrop for the latest from Mexican auteur Carlos...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: #3. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub is Mektoub

Mektoub is Mektoub Director: Abdellatif Kechiche Writer: Francois Begaudeau French Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche stormed Cannes in 2013 with his controversial fifth film, Blue is the Warmest...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: #4. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless

Loveless Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev Writer: Oleg Nevin One of the most notable contemporary Russian filmmakers, Andrey Zvyagintsev returns to the realm of the domestic drama for his...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #5. Lucrecia Martel’s Zama

Zama Director: Lucrecia Martel Writer: Lucrecia Martel We’ve been waiting quite a while for Zama, and had high hopes this would appear at either Cannes or Venice...

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Interview: Benjamín Naishtat & Esteban Bigliardi – Glaxo

World premiering at the 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival,...

2026 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: New Projects by Sofia Alaoui, Yasmine Benkiran & Jessy Moussallem at the Atlas Workshops

Moroccan filmmakers Meryem Benm’barek, Sofia Alaoui and Yasmine Benkiran...

Club Kid | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

Sex, Drugs & Unexpected Parenting: Firstman’s Debut Creates an...

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The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the...
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