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 2015: #57. Benedek Fliegauf’s Lily Lane

Lily Lane Director: Benedek Fliegauf// Writer: Benedek Fliegauf Those familiar with the films of Hungarian filmmaker Benedek Fliegauf find him hard to pinpoint. He’s been building...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #58. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Love in Khon Kaen

Love in Khon Kaen Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul // Writer: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Though he premiered a medium length film at Cannes 2012, Mekong Hotel, Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul hasn’t debuted a feature...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #59. Michael Rowe’s Rest Home

Rest Home Director: Michael Rowe// Writer: Michael Rowe We’ve been a champion of Michael Rowe, an Australian filmmaker living in Mexico, since his 2010 debut Leap...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #60. Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights

Arabian Nights Director: Miguel Gomes// Writers: Miguel Gomes, Telmo Churro, Mariana Ricardo Miguel Gomes’ 2012 film Tabu managed to elevate the Portugeuse filmmaker’s international status when...

The Guest | Blu-ray Review

Enjoying a healthy festival run after its premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and a tour that brought it to SXSW and Toronto,...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’

After gaining international recognition with Berlinale entries in Silver...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’

Post My Summer of Love (2004) and The Woman...

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Story of O: Schoenbrun Approaches the Horrific Desire...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s ‘A Woman’s Life’

With her sophomore feature, Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet made her first...
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