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: #68. Jessica Hausner’s Little Joe

Little Joe Austrian director Jessica Hausner is busy working on her fifth feature, Little Joe, which details the story of a mother and son who...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #69. Xavier Dolan’s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan

The Death and Life of John F. Donovan Established Canadian auteur Xavier Dolan embarks on his most ambitious endeavor yet with his long gestating seventh...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #70. Aleksey German Jr.’s Dovlatov

Dovlatov Since helping to complete his father’s posthumous opus Hard to Be a God, Russian director Aleksey German Jr. revealed his third feature, Under Electric...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #71. Ciro Guerra & Cristina Gallegos’ Birds of Passage

Birds of Passage Columbian director Ciro Guerra unveiled one of 2015’s best titles with his third film Embrace of the Serpent (read review), an Amazonian, post-colonial...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #72. Kim Jee-woon’s In-rang: The Wolf Brigade

In-rang: The Wolf Brigade South Korean auteur Kim Jee-woon has been circling and developing a live-action adaptation of Mamuro Oshii’s (Ghost in the Shell) anime...

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

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