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: #98. Pedro Costa’s The Daughters of Fire

The Daughters of Fire Portuguese director Pedro Costa is ready for his fire walk and back with his first narrative project since 2014’s Horse Money....

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #99. Gerard Corbiau’s Saving Mozart

Saving Mozart It’s been eighteen years since Belgian director Gerard Corbiau’s last theatrical feature The King is Dancing (2000). Although he’s unveiled some television and...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #100. Mati Diop’s The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time Our only directorial debut in the top 100, actress Mati Diop moves behind the camera in her long-gestating project, The Fire...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2018: DuVernay, McQueen & Scorsese Top the List

Looking forward to the theatrical pleasures of 2018, the Hollywood studio system seems mostly a foregone conclusion save for a handful of items which...

Tuesday Blus: Billy Wilder’s The Apartment & Lindsay Anderson’s The Whales of August

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: The Apartment (1960) - Arrow Academy / The Whales of August (1987) - Kino Lorber / Sayonara...

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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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