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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

DVD: Miss Bala

Friday, 17 February 2012 Read more...

The Woman in Black

Friday, 10 February 2012 Read more...

Crooked Houses: Homes from Hell

Monday, 06 February 2012 Read more...

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Tuesday, 31 January 2012 Read more...

The Descendants

Wednesday, 25 January 2012 Read more...

The Artist

Friday, 30 December 2011 Read more...

2011: Mysteries, Mayhem and Margaret

Wednesday, 28 December 2011 Read more...

DVD: Kill List

Friday, 23 December 2011 Read more...

DVD: Super 8

Friday, 16 December 2011 Read more...

Puss in Boots

Wednesday, 07 December 2011 Read more...

Margaret

Monday, 05 December 2011 Read more...

Las Acacias

Friday, 02 December 2011 Read more...

The Deep Blue Sea

Thursday, 24 November 2011 Read more...

DVD: Bridesmaids

Friday, 18 November 2011 Read more...

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Thursday, 20 October 2011 Read more...

Tyrannosaur

Friday, 07 October 2011 Read more...

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With Brad Pitt’s much-trumpeted F1 movie about to screech noisily into the multiplexes, it’s not a bad time to be reminded of the career of one of...

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Suzuki, St Marti...

In the Saxony of 1725 – still in the grip of Europe’s “Little Ice Age” – Bach and his musicians would seldom have had to deal with the sort of...

Patrick Wolf, Rough Trade East review - the Kent-based bard...

After the evening’s second song “The Last of England,” Patrick Wolf cautions “I’ve got nothing left to say.” During the shows leading up to this...

4.48 Psychosis, Royal Court review - powerful but déjà vu

Sarah Kane is the most celebrated new writer of the 1990s. Her work is provocative and innovative. So it seems oddly unimaginative to mark the...

The Buccaneers, Apple TV+, Season 2 review - American advent...

Edith Wharton hadn’t finished her novel, The Buccaneers, when she died in 1937, but it was completed in 1993 by Marion Mainwaring. The...

Red Path review - the dead know everything

Here’s a film you might not feel like seeing. After all, Red Path tells of a 14-year-old in Tunisia who is forced to carry home the...

Album: Loyle Carner - Hopefully!

Loyle Carner’s Hopefully! is a luminous, deeply personal exploration of fatherhood, identity, and artistic reinvention, marking the south...

The Midnight Bell, Sadler's Wells review - a first repr...

Rarely has a revival given a firmer thumbs-up for the future of dance-theatre. Yet Matthew Bourne’s latest show, first aired at the tail-end of...

Album: HAIM - I Quit

Haim’s profile just grows and grows. Since their last album, youngest sibling Alana’s starring role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s whimsical Seventies...