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: #40. Pour le meilleur et pour le pire – Stéphane Brizé

Pour le meilleur et pour le pire Stéphane Brizé reunites with Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Lindon for his ninth feature Pour le meilleur et pour...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #41. Prisoners of the Ghostland – Sion Sono

Prisoners of the Ghostland Despite being a perennial festival presence, some may be wondering what’s happened to Japanese provocateur Sion Sono, who usually has somewhere...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #42. The Nest – Sean Durkin

The Nest Eight years after the success of his 2011 debut Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sean Durkin resurfaces with sophomore feature The Nest, a Canadian-U.K....

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #43. School Town – Liu Jian

School Town Chinese animator Liu Jian should hopefully have his third feature ready sometime in 2020, School Town, meant to be an autobiographical look at...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #44. La bonne épouse – Martin Provost

La bonne épouse Initially an actor whose career began in the mid-1970s, France’s Martin Provost has become a notable director over the past decade, which...

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