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 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #54. Eva Sørhaug’s Sunny

Sunny Norway’s Eva Sørhaug switches things up a bit with her third feature, Sunny, her English language debut which is set to star Sharon Stone...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #55. Jesper Ganslandt’s Jimmie

Jimmie It’s now been six years since Swedish director Jesper Ganslandt’s familial reunion drama Blondie (2012), where it appeared in Venice Days. It was a...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #56. Agnieszka Smoczynska’s Fugue

Fugue Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska became an instant breakout success with her debut The Lure (read review),  a 1980s set horror musical about two sister sirens...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #57. Quentin Dupieux’s Au Poste

Au Poste Having taken a two-year break from filmmaking to work on a new album under his pseudonym Mr. Oizo (the famed electro house musician),...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #58. Julie Bertuccelli’s Claire Darling

Claire Darling Documentary filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli, who worked with a stunning array of world auteurs as an assistant director, moved into narrative filmmaking with 2003’s...

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