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: #20. Untitled Hong Sang-soo Project

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Nicholas Bell - January 3, 2020

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

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Nicholas Bell - January 3, 2020

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

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #22. Dear Comrades – Andrey Konchalovsky

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Nicholas Bell - January 3, 2020

Dear Comrades (Dorogie tovarishchi) Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky continues his prolific chameleonic streak with his latest project, Dear Comrades, which will feature, once again, the...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #23. Untitled Yellow Vest Jean-Luc Godard Drama

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Nicholas Bell - January 3, 2020

Untitled Yellow Vest Jean-Luc Godard Drama In April of 2019, the 88-year-old Jean-Luc Godard revealed he was working on his next film, a yet-to-be-titled drama...