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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theartsdesk at the East Neuk Festival 2022 - on Cloud Nine f...
Last year’s relatively slimline East Neuk Festival felt like a feast in time of plague. This July everything was back to full strength in numerous...
Jessie Burton: The House of Fortune review - a muted, sensit...
A sequel is always a hard thing to write, especially if the book that precedes it is a bestseller, adapted for television and read by more than a...
Album: Viagra Boys - Cave World
The third album from Stockholm rowdies Viagra Boys doesn’t muck about with what they do, but it’s more persistently punkin’ than their last. There...
Mick Jagger: My Life as a Rolling Stone review, BBC Two - th...
At the beginning of this film, Mick Jagger says: “What most...
Alcina, Glyndebourne review - Handel on the strand
Reviewing the Grange Festival production of Tamerlano the other day, I noted the difficulty...
Favour, Bush Theatre review - Ambreen Razia's punchy ne...
Where should Leila live — Ilford or Kent? It doesn’t sound like an earth-shattering decision for a 15-year-old to make, but the stakes...
Album: Laura Veirs - Found Light
The last minute of Found Light’s third track “Seaside Haiku” is defined by the repetition of a single phrase: “give but don’t give too...
Music Reissues Weekly: Ferkat Al Ard - Oghneya
Oghneya opens with the extraordinary “Matar Al Sabah.” Jazzy, with an overt Brazilian feel it gently swings and swoons....
The Making of Pinocchio, LIFT 2022, Battersea Arts Centre re...
Pinocchio is one of our most irreverent metamorphosis stories, and in this visually ingenious blend of...
