Mark Kermode
- English
- Presenter and reviewer
Press clippings
Director Yorgos Lanthimos on Poor Things, shame and his creative soulmate Emma Stone
The outlandish new film from the celebrated Greek director of The Favourite and The Lobster is already one of the most talked-about movies of 2024. He discusses adapting Alasdair Gray's novel and what makes him laugh.
Mark Kermode, The Observer, 31st December 2023The Lost King review - Sally Hawkins saves Richard III dig drama
Stephen Frears, Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan turn the true story of how the infamous king's remains were found under a Leicester car park into an uneven comedy drama.
Mark Kermode, The Observer, 9th October 2022Flux Gourmet review
Peter Strickland's deliciously bonkers tale of art, desire and gut pain.
Mark Kermode, The Observer, 2nd October 2022Brian And Charles review
David Earl and Chris Hayward's moving buddy comedy about a man who builds a companion in his shed has charm to spare, writes Mark Kermode.
Mark Kermode, The Observer, 10th July 2022Good Luck To You, Leo Grande review
The endlessly versatile actor plays a reserved widow who hires a sex worker in this enjoyably subversive but not quite believable romp.
Mark Kermode, The Observer, 19th June 2022The Duke review
Jim Broadbent excels in true tale of art-stealing pensioner, writers Mark Kermode.
Mark Kermode, The Observer, 27th February 2022Rare Beasts review
Billie Piper's feature debut as writer-director is a peculiar "anti-romcom" - a post-Fleabag-era tale of dysfunctional male/female relationships, tinged with musical fantasia and built around bitterly comedic theatrical dialogue.
Mark Kermode, The Observer, 23rd May 2021Mark Kermode's Secrets Of Cinema: British Comedy review
Here he is on nude scenes in Calendar Girls and The Full Monty: 'So it's interesting that two of the most popular comedies from the past 25 years see very different sets of characters shedding social convention by shedding their clothes.'
Are you laughing yet?
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 12th January 2021Mark Kermode's Secrets Of Cinema: British Comedy review
It will come as little surprise to anyone who's encountered Mark Kermode's film criticism on the radio or in print that his TV essay on British comedy movies is incisive, informed and intelligent, yet effortlessly accessible.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 11th January 2021Armando Iannucci works comedic wonders with Dickens's endlessly re-interpretable Victorian narrative. Dev Patel leads an astonishing array of players, cast with a colour-blind inclusivity that broadens the scope and reach of this film beyond that of previous Dickens adaptations.
Mark Kermode, The Observer, 27th December 2020