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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

The Selfish Giant

Friday, 25 October 2013 Read more...

LFF 2013: Under the Skin

Wednesday, 16 October 2013 Read more...

LFF 2013: The Double

Monday, 14 October 2013 Read more...

LFF 2013: Nebraska

Friday, 11 October 2013 Read more...

The To Do List

Monday, 30 September 2013 Read more...

LFF 2013: Programme Launch

Thursday, 05 September 2013 Read more...

The Great Beauty

Monday, 02 September 2013 Read more...

The Way Way Back

Wednesday, 28 August 2013 Read more...

Listed: Screen Bastards

Saturday, 24 August 2013 Read more...

We're the Millers

Friday, 23 August 2013 Read more...

Bachelorette

Monday, 12 August 2013 Read more...

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

Wednesday, 07 August 2013 Read more...

The Conjuring

Friday, 02 August 2013 Read more...

Only God Forgives

Monday, 29 July 2013 Read more...

Frances Ha

Monday, 22 July 2013 Read more...

Stories We Tell

Monday, 24 June 2013 Read more...

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Robert Redford (1936-2025)

Somehow both rugged and smooth, embodying American values yet often turning up his collar against them, Robert Redford – who died on 16 September...

Brìghde Chaimbeul, Round Chapel review - enchantment in East...

Hackney’s Round Chapel is an appropriate venue. Scottish...

First Person: Musician ALA.NI on how thoughts of empire and...

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Robert Redford: remembering All the President’s Men

In the summer of 2005, Robert Redford, who died this week, attended the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, to collect a life...

The Producers, Garrick Theatre review - Ve haf vays of makin...

Unexpectedly, there’s a sly reference to James Joyce’s Ulysses interpolated into Act One (in case we hadn’t caught the not...

Appl, Levickis, Wigmore Hall review - fun to the fore in cab...

Concerts at the Wigmore Hall offer many types of pleasure, but not...

Album: The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon

Neil Hannon has been recording and touring as the Divine Comedy since 1989 and has tried a fair few flavours along the way, from chamber pop to...

Lammermuir Festival 2025, Part 2 review - from the soaringly...

My colleague Boyd Tonkin visited the Lammermuir Festival for the first time this year. His eyes and ears have been opened to its treasures, but...

Frances Wilson: Electric Spark - The Enigma of Muriel Spark...

How do you tell the story of a person’s mind? In the preface to Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark, published this year by...