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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Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction

As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #1. Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne’s La Fille inconnue

La Fille inconnue Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Writers: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne The two-time Palme d'Or winning Belgian duo Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Rosetta; L'Enfant) take...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #2. Alain Guiraudie’s Rester vertical

Rester vertical Director: Alain Guiraudie Writer: Alain Guiraudie Offbeat auteur Alain Guiraudie has been making feature films since his 2003 debut No Rest for the Brave (which...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #3. Paul Verhoeven’s Elle

Elle Director: Paul Verhoeven Writers: David Birke, Harold Manning Words cannot describe how excited we are to see the pairing of Paul Verhoeven and Isabelle Huppert in...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #4. Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper

Personal Shopper Director: Olivier Assayas Writer: Olivier Assayas Olivier Assayas returns with another English language Euro drama starring Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper. Their last collaboration was the...

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Total Eclipse of the Art: Markus Schleinzer Sets Christian Friedel as ‘Klaus’ Nomi

Fresh off the acclaimed Berlinale premiere of his third...

No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’

Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...
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