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: #60. Night Shift – Anne Fontaine

Night Shift French director Anne Fontaine continues to be a perennial presence in 2020 with her seventeenth feature, Night Shift (formerly titled Police). Produced by...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #61. Comédie humaine – Xavier Giannoli

Comédie humaine France’s Xavier Giannoli scored a sleeper hit with 2018’s supernatural tinged drama The Apparition starring Vincent Lindon (scoring a Cesar nod for newcomer...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #62. Charlatan – Agnieszka Holland

Charlatan Polish director Agnieszka Holland remains as busy as ever, leaving behind the horrors of the Holodomor in her 2019 biopic Mr. Jones for a...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #63. Serre moins fort – Mathieu Amalric

Serre moins fort Actor/director Mathieu Amalric commences work on his eighth feature with Serre moins fort, a working title. The French-German co-production is being produced...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #64. Dead & Beautiful – David Verbeek

Dead & Beautiful For his seventh narrative feature, Dutch director David Verbeek continues to pursue his unique cultural and co-production infusions with Dead & Beautiful,...

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