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 2019: #139. Last Dear Bulgaria – Aleksey Fedorchenko

Last Dear Bulgaria Russia’s Aleksey Fedorchenko is preparing his seventh feature, Last Dear Bulgaria, produced by the director himself alongside Andrey Saveliev, Artem Vassiliev (Dovlatov,...

Criterion Collection: Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) | Blu-ray Review

As John Simon’s insert essay “The Lower Depths” asserts in Criterion’s Blu-ray re-release of Ingmar Bergman’s 1953 masterpiece Sawdust and Tinsel, the title was...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #140. The Beast in the Jungle – Clara van Gool

The Beast in the Jungle Dutch director Clara van Gool tackles the Henry James novella The Beast in the Jungle, adapting the text as a...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #141. The Lost Prince – Michel Hazanavicius

The Lost Prince Oscar winning director Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist, 2011) embarks on his seventh feature, The Lost Prince (Le prince oublié), set to star...

Criterion Collection: Forty Guns (1957) | Blu-ray Review

Samuel Fuller’s formidably feminist, embracingly revisionist 1957 western Forty Guns announces its boldness in an opening sequence whereby a ferocious Barbara Stanwyck stampedes and...

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