thu 28/03/2024

Demetrios Matheou

Bio
Demetrios Matheou is a London-based journalist, critic and author. He was the chief film critic for The Sunday Herald in Glasgow between 2004-18, and a contributing film critic for The Independent on Sunday between 2000-2016. He’s currently published in The Times, The Standard, The i, Sight and Sound and Screen Daily, among others. He is also a London theatre critic for The Hollywood Reporter. Demetrios is the author of The Faber Book of New South American Cinema, while contributing to a number of other film titles. He co-curated the retrospective season South American Renaissance for The BFI South Bank and co-founded the London Argentine Film Festival. He's served on the juries of a number of international film festivals.

Articles By Demetrios Matheou

Jack Absolute Flies Again, National Theatre review - fluffy as a cloud but hugely entertaining

Read more...

Straight Line Crazy, Bridge Theatre review – in desperate need of a curve ball

Read more...

Paris,13th District review - millennial merry-go-round

Read more...

The Collaboration, Young Vic Theatre review - artistic giants, wigs, warts and all

Read more...

The Chairs, Almeida Theatre review - a tragi-comic double act for the ages

Read more...

theartsdesk at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival - still crazy after all these years

Read more...

Spencer review – daring, strange and deeply moving

Read more...

Last Night in Soho review - hung over

Read more...

Dune review - awesome display of sci-fi world-building

Read more...

No Time to Die review - Daniel Craig’s bold, bountiful Bond farewell

Read more...

The Nest review – intriguing, off-kilter family drama

Read more...

First Cow review - beautifully realised frontier drama

Read more...

The Mauritanian review – moving 9/11 drama

Read more...

Berlinale 2021: Petite Maman review – magical musings on the parent-child relationship

Read more...

Berlinale 2021: Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn review – cheeky, timely and very provocative

Read more...

Blu-ray: Crash

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

First Person: author-turned-actor Lydia Higman on a play tha...

I first read Anne Gunter’s story about five years ago, when I was in my first year of university at Oxford, little knowing it would over time lead...

The Origin of Evil review - Laure Calamy stars in gripping F...

A young woman (Laure Calamy; Call my Agent!; Full Time; Her Way) is trying to pluck up the courage to call her...

Foam, Finborough Theatre review - fascism and f*cking in a G...

In a too brightly tiled Gentlemen’s public convenience (Nitin Parmar’s beautifully realised set is as much a character as any of the men we meet...

Album: Ride - Interplay

What a time to be alive it is for fans of late Eighties, early Nineties ...

Schubert Piano Sonatas 4, Paul Lewis, Wigmore Hall review -...

“Death doesn’t scare me at all,” said my friend Christopher Hitchens during our last telephone conversation. “After all, it’s the only certainty...

Vossa Jazz 2024 review - Norwegian festival embraces William...

“The name of this group is Mayan Space Station.” In spite of the billing as The William Parker Trio, their bassist – coolly introducing himself as...

First person: playwright Paul Grellong on keeping pace with...

I’m writing this in the lobby of the...

Album: Sum 41 - Heaven :x: Hell

Sum 41 honour their 27-year career with Heaven :x: Hell, a 20-track double album, due to be their final, without a single skip. Harking...

3 Body Problem, Netflix review - life, the universe and ever...

From Game of Thrones producers David Benioff and DB Weiss, in cahoots with Alexander Woo, 3 Body Problem is Netflix’s daring...