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: #26. La Daronne – Jean-Paul Salomé

La Daronne Director Jean-Paul Salomé’s international reputation should expand significantly with his eighth feature, La Daronne aka Mama Weed, adapted from a celebrated novel by...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #27. Malmkrog – Cristi Puiu

Malmkrog 2019 has come and gone, but we’ve yet to see the latest project from Cristi Puiu, which was reportedly completed sometime ago (with a...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #28. La práctica – Martín Rejtman

La práctica It’s already been five years since Martín Rejtman’s (one of the key figures of New Argentine Cinema) last film, 2014’s Two Shots Fired...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #29. Paradis sale – Bertrand Mandico

Paradis sale French director Bertrand Mandico was the breakout hit of 2018 when Cahier du Cinema named his directorial debut The Wild Boys the best...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #30. Le sel des larmes – Philippe Garrel

Le sel des larmes 2020 will see the premiere of the 27th feature by French auteur Philippe Garrel with The Salt of Tears, which reunites...

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