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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Ivo Graham: The Game of Life, Soho Theatre review - privileg...
Ivo Graham's latest show The Game of Life follows on from his previous hour, in which he talked about passing a milestone in...
CD: Coldplay - Everyday Life
For all they've inspired swathes of the most crushingly mundane music of the modern age from Sheeran on down, Coldplay have always been at their...
& Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre review - the Bard with dan...
It’s bright, it’s brash, it’s a gazillion times camper than Christmas: but is it such stuff as theatrical hits are made on? If that misquotation...
21 Bridges review - police corruption thriller sets a cracki...
Thanks to a powerful cast and crisp direction from Brian Kirk (Game of Thrones, Luther), 21 Bridges drives home its...
Dear Evan Hansen, Noël Coward Theatre review - this social o...
Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s Tony and Grammy Award-winning ...
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes, BBC Four review - touching ins...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ken Loach’s film Kes, and the 51st of A Kestrel for a Knave, the Barry Hines novel it...
theartsdesk in Warsaw: musical perspectives on culture beyon...
The new "eufonie" festival is dedicated to the music of...
CD: Leonard Cohen - Thanks for the Dance
That voice’s husky confiding wasn’t quite silenced. Working helped...
Stewart Lee: Tornado/Snowflake, Leicester Square Theatre rev...
Stewart Lee is back on the road after three years, and he comes back wonderfully refreshed and on marvellous form with this double header, ...
Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dudamel, Barbican review - m...
The megastars are here at the Barbican, for an intensive three days in the case of the...