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: #64. Ulrich Köhler’s In My Room

In My Room It’s been a seven-year absence for German director Ulrich Köhler, who’s third feature Sleeping Sickness netted the Silver Bear at the 2011...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #65. Kim Ki-duk’s Human, Space, Time and Human

Human, Space, Time and Human Perennial South Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk is back with his twenty-first narrative feature Human, Space, Time and Human, which concerns...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #66. Brian De Palma’s Domino

Domino It’s been six years and several failed projects later, but American auteur Brian De Palma is back with his latest, Domino, a Copenhagen set...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #67. Krzysztof Zanussi’s Ether

Ether Polish auteur Krzysztof Zanussi is well into his sixth decade of narrative filmmaking with an ambitious new period piece, Ether. After working in short...

Tuesday Blus: Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet’s Moses and Aaron / Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Happy Hour

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Moses and Aaron (1975) - Grasshopper, For Love of Ivy (1968) - Kino, The...

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Children of the Monkey (I figli della scimmia) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Favorited Son: Landucci Looks at How Love Can...

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother | 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review

Holy War: Mahershala Ali Unleashes Fatherly Vengeance Your Mother Your...

Back to Buenos Aires | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Doctor and the Devils: Bechis Explores the Agony...

A Bit of Light | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

Under the Cherry Moon: Asgari Lets the Sun Shine...
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