Emma Simmonds
Bio
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
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Rose Theatre review - new produc...
Brecht – as I suppose he intended – is always a shock to the system. With not a word on what to...
The Boy with Two Hearts, National Theatre review - poignant...
It’s particularly poignant to watch this story in the knowledge that a little over a year after US-led troops withdrew from Afghanistan, women and...
James IV: Queen of the Fight, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh re...
"The poem is real," intones entertainer-turned-courtier Ellen solemnly as a prologue and epilogue to Rona Munro’s...
Album: Broken Bells - Into the Blue
Not content with having released one of the best hip-hop albums in recent memory (Cheat Codes, alongside Black Thought), producer Brian...
Inside Man, BBC One review - strong cast trapped on a sinkin...
Screenwriter and showrunner Steven Moffat is renowned for some of his work, especially...
Lucian Freud: New Perspectives, National Gallery review - a...
There stands Lucian Freud in Reflection with Two Children (Self-portrait), 1965 (main picture) towering over you,...
Blu-ray: Nitram
Nitram is an object lesson in how to make a responsible film about a mass shooting, right down to not using the fame-seeking...
Only an Octave Apart, Wilton's Music Hall review - inst...
You know you’re in good company the minute these two appear on stage: they are so splendidly what they are, comfortable in their own skins and...
Jaminaround, Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne review - c...
The most unlikely venue: an extraordinary, authentic-as-can-be replica of a large Iron Age roundhouse. There’s a turf and grass roof, and the...
Andrew Murray: Is Socialism Possible in Britain? review - wh...
The title of Andrew Murray’s new book poses a question that also vexed...