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Emma Simmonds

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Emma is a film and TV critic whose words have appeared in Time Out, Radio Times, The Observer, Empire, Total Film, Little White Lies, The Spectator, Virgin Movies, MovieMail and Popmatters, amongst many others. She is also a contributor to the London, New York and Glasgow volumes of the World Film Locations book series. She is The List magazine's current Film Reviews Editor and The Arts Desk's former Film Editor.

Articles By Emma Simmonds

T.S. Spivet

Monday, 09 June 2014 Read more...

22 Jump Street

Saturday, 07 June 2014 Read more...

Grace of Monaco

Wednesday, 04 June 2014 Read more...

Miss and the Doctors

Monday, 26 May 2014 Read more...

Heli

Wednesday, 21 May 2014 Read more...

A Touch of Sin

Wednesday, 14 May 2014 Read more...

In Secret

Monday, 12 May 2014 Read more...

Blue Ruin

Wednesday, 30 April 2014 Read more...

Sundance London 2014: They Came Together

Monday, 28 April 2014 Read more...

Sundance London 2014: Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Saturday, 26 April 2014 Read more...

Sundance London 2014: The Voices

Friday, 25 April 2014 Read more...

Exhibition

Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Read more...

10 Questions for Director Lukas Moodysson

Friday, 18 April 2014 Read more...

The Raid 2

Wednesday, 09 April 2014 Read more...

Calvary

Tuesday, 08 April 2014 Read more...

Divergent

Wednesday, 02 April 2014 Read more...

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Alien: Earth, Disney+ review - was this interstellar journey...

Ridley Scott’s original Alien movie from 1979 was an all-time sci-fi/horror classic, and even an endless stream of sequels and spin-offs...

Unmoored review - atmospheric Swedish noir set on Exmoor

“When have you ever gone off alone?” scoffs Magnus (Thomas W Gabrielsson) when his wife, Maria (Mirja Turestedt), expresses the wish to go to...

Album: Tom Grennan - Everywhere I Went Led Me To Where I Did...

Who’d have guessed that a dude who first came to attention a decade ago guesting on a cheesy Chase & Status drum & bass track would likely...

The Two Gentlemen of Verona, RSC, Stratford review - not qui...

I have two guilty secrets about the theatre – okay, two I’m prepared to own up to right here, right now. I quite enjoy some...

Orpheus and Eurydice, Opera Queensland/SCO, Edinburgh Intern...

There’s a lot to shout about in this Orpheus, especially the way it looks. In a thin year for staged opera at the Edinburgh International...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Eric Rushton / Bella Hull

Eric Rushton, Monkey Barrel ★★...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: The Horse of Jenin / Nowhere

The Horse of Jenin, Pleasance Dome ★★...

Beating Hearts review - kiss kiss, slam slam

Andrew Garfield was 29 when he played the teenage Spiderman and Jennifer Grey was 27 when she took on a decade-younger-than-her character called “...

Album: Emma Smith - Bitter Orange

Emma Smith, one time Puppini Sister, has established herself over the past decade or so as one of the UK’s most compelling jazz singers, now...