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 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #17. How Do You Live? – Hayao Miyazaki

Kimi-tachi wa Dō Ikiru ka / How Do You Live? With 2013’s The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki, arguably the most influential anime director of all...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #18. Inexorable – Fabrice Du Welz

Inexorable Hot on the heels of his Locarno debuted Adoration (read review), the final chapter in his thematic Ardennes trilogy, Belgian auteur Fabrice du Welz...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #19. La caja – Lorenzo Vigas

La caja Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas became an immediate international director of note after winning the Golden Lion at the 2015 Venice Film Festival for...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #20. Untitled Hong Sang-soo Project

Untitled Hong Sang-soo Project Having spent 2019 embroiled in widely publicized divorce court proceedings, 2019 came and went without a new film project from South...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #21. Comes Morning – Naomi Kawase

Asa ga Kuru / Comes Morning A director whose international prestige has been orchestrated primarily through her repeated appearances at the Cannes film festival (where...

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2026 Sundance: Rachel Lambert, Beth de Araújo & Josef Kubota Wladyka in U.S. Dramatic Comp

Catch the Fair One's Josef Kubota Wladyka, Sometimes I...

2026 Sundance: Visar Morina, Myrsini Aristidou & Suzanne Andrews Correa in World Cinema Dramatic Comp

Myrsini Aristidou, Visar Morina and Suzanne Andrews Correa are...

The Voice of Hind Rajab | Review

In a Child’s Name: Ben Hania’s Grueling Portrait of...
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