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: #103. Petite Nature – Samuel Theis

Petite Nature Samuel Theis, who co-directed 2014’s Party Girl alongside Marie Amachoukeli and Claire Burger (we chatted with the filmmaker on her solo debut, Real...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #104. The River – Ghassan Salhab

The River For his fifth feature-length production, Senegal’s Ghassan Salhab embarks on The River, a French co-production, like several of his past features, set in...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #105. Ironbark – Dominic Cooke

Ironbark For his sophomore film, the UK’s Dominic Cooke tackles the Cold War in Ironbark, produced by Adam Ackland, Rory Aitken, Ben Browning, and Ben...

Stranger Danger in Lumet’s Troubled Romantic Thriller “A Stranger Among Us” (1992) | Blu-ray Review

One of the few misfires of director Sidney Lumet’s extensive and impressive filmography, his 1992 romantic thriller A Stranger Among Us finds itself recuperated...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #106. Mon légionnaire – Rachel Lang

Mon Legionnaire Director Rachel Lang snags Louis Garrel (who had a significant 2019, appearing in Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy and Gerwig’s Little Women,...

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