Mark Kermode

Mark Kermode (/ˈkɜːrˌmoʊd/, KUR-moh-d; né Fairey; born 2 July 1963) is an English film critic, musician, radio presenter, television presenter, author and podcaster. He is the co-presenter (with Ellen E. Jones) of the BBC Radio 4 programme Screenshot, and co-presenter (alongside long-time collaborator Simon Mayo) of the film-review podcast Kermode & Mayo's Take. Kermode is a regular contributor to The Observer, for which he was chief film critic between September 2013 and September 2023. Kermode is the author of several books on film and music, including It's Only a Movie; The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex; Hatchet Job; and How Does It Feel?. He is the co-author of Hollywood: Sixty Great Years (with Jack Lodge, John Russell Taylor, Adrian Turner, Douglas Jarvis and David Castell), The Movie Doctors (with Simon Mayo), and Mark Kermode's Surround Sound (with Jenny Nelson). He has also written three volumes for the BFI's Modern Classics series – on The Exorcist, The Shawshank Redemption and Silent Running. Since the late 1980s he has contributed to the BFI's film magazine Sight & Sound and its predecessor The Monthly Film Bulletin, and since January 2016 he has presented a monthly...

Mark Kermode ist zu sehen in Benjamin, The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection', Midas Man, The Amazing Mr. Blunden, Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut.