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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Black November | Review

Sweet, Oily November: Amata’s Agonizingly Clunky Issue Film Nigerian filmmaker Jeta Amata’s fourth feature Black November sports a slew of notable American faces in this...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #1. Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special

Midnight Special Director: Jeff Nichols // Writer: Jeff Nichols Jeff Nichols has been a steadily rising director since his excellent 2007 debut, Shotgun Stories, which first...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #2. Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie

Chappie Director: Neill Blomkamp // Writers: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell After the unprecedented success of his debut, District 9 (2009), South African director Neill Blomkamp thankfully...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #3. Derek Cianfrance’s The Light Between Oceans

The Light Between Oceans Director Derek Cianfrance // Writers: Derek Cianfrance, M.L. Stedman Derek Cianfrance surfaced to the forefront of the best new American directors with...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #4. Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight Director: Quentin Tarantino // Writer: Quentin Tarantino The film that almost wasn’t due to a draft of the script being leaked in early...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Koji Fukada’s ‘Nagi Notes’

Koji Fukada emerged as one of the major voices...

A Woman’s Life (La Vie d’une femme) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Things to Come: Bourgeois-Tacquet Explores an Affair to Remember Crimes...

Nagi Notes | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Only the Lonely: Fukada Explores Constructions of Identity Japanese auteur...
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