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: #75. Passion Simple – Danielle Arbid

Passion Simple Lebanese born French filmmaker Danielle Arbid mounts a high profile adaptation for her fifth narrative feature, Passion Simple, based on the popular 1992...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #76. One Second – Zhang Yimou

One Second Will we ever be able to see Zhang Yimou’s One Second, which was yanked out of Berlin 2019 days before its premiere for...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #77. Stowaway – Joe Penna

Stowaway Brazilian born musician/director Joe Penna continues with interesting co-production packaging for his sophomore feature Stowaway, a US-German project starring Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick, Daniel...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #78. Untitled Kiyoshi Kurosawa War Drama

Untitled Kiyoshi Kurosawa War Drama Project Japan’s Kiyoshi Kurosawa lets no moss gather, as he will be following his 2019 Uzbekistan set To the End...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #79. Rock Solid – Zhang Yimou

Rock Solid Zhang Yimou has remained busier than ever. With 2018’s Shadow premiering out of competition at Venice and reaching theatrical release stateside in 2019,...

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