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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In Case of No Emergency: The Films of Ruben Östlund

The first ever retrospective of Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund’s work which opens at the at the Film Society Lincoln Center this Wednesday and began its tour...

It’s All So Quiet | Review

I Need a Lover with a Farmhand: Leopold’s Understated Portrait of Desire Deferred Loneliness and resentment are the dueling, omnipresent emotions on screen in virtually...

Taken 3 | Review

Taken a Break: Megaton’s Slurpy Finish Brings Euro Schlock to L.A. It should surprise no one that Taken 3 is a laughable, sometimes downright embarrassing...

And the Most Anticipated Foreign Film of 2015 is…Andrzej Zulawski’s Cosmos

Cosmos Director: Andrzej Zulawski // Writer: Andrzej Zulawski 2015 marks the ending of a fifteen year hiatus from filmmaking for Polish auteur Andrzej Zulawski, whose last...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #2. Paul Verhoeven’s Elle

Elle Director: Paul Verhoeven // Writer: David Birke One cannot overlook the plentiful cinematic contributions of Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven, who made waves back in 1973...

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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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