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: #93. Untitled Maxime Giroux Project

Quebecois director Maxime Giroux received his first international success with third feature Felix & Meira (2014), which won Best Canadian Film following its premiere...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #94. Zhang Yimou’s Shadow

Shadow Zhang Yimou, one of China’s most prolific international mainstream successes, shows no signs of abandoning the historical adventure epics which up until recently proved...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #95. Eran Kolirin’s Let it Be Morning

Let it Be Morning Israeli director Eran Kolirin returns to topical provocations with his fourth feature Let It Be Morning, which is based on the...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #96. Martin Zandvliet’s The Outsider

The Outsider Danish filmmaker Martin Zandvliet scored his first international success with his third feature, 2015’s tense WWII film Land of Mine (read review), which competed in...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #97. Koen Mortier’s Angel

Angel Flemish director Koen Mortier ends an eight-year hiatus with third feature Angel, which relates the unfortunate demise of famed Belgian cyclist Frank Vandenbroucke, who...

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