Jennie Kermode

A full time writer, part time academic and human rights advocate, Jennie is content director at Eye For Film, which often means that she has to pick up the awful stuff nobody else wants to review. The good side of this is that it gives her the chance to identify undiscovered gems.

Jennie enjoys a wide range of different genres and would probably say that her favourite film is Picnic At Hanging Rock or Vertigo. Before coming to Eye For Film, she spent two years with Movie Gurus. She has worked as Arts & Culture Editor at KaleidoScot and written on film for the likes of The Independent, Studio Magazine and the Directory of World Cinema. She also writes books, the most recent of which is Growing Older as a Trans and/or Non-Binary Person.

Jennie is a member of the Online Film Critics Society and Cherry Picks and Criticwire. She is also a Rotten Tomatoes registered Tomatometer critic. You can find her on Twitter at @jennie_kermode, on BlueSky at @jenniekermode.bsky.social or on Mastodon at @jennie_kermode@toot.community

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Latest Film Reviews

The Imposters
A troubled woman on the rebound gets in over her head with a seductive stranger before realising that all is not what it seems.
Never Look Away
New Zealand–born groundbreaking CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth risks it all to show the reality of war from inside the conflict, staring down danger and confronting those who perpetuate it.
Cooking Price-Wise
Vincent Price demonstrates how to cook dishes from around the world using easy-to-access 1970s ingredients.
Rita
Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer is caught up in a plot to assassinate Hitler, facing an ethical quandary as he strives to prevent genocide.
The Man With A Thousand Faces
He goes by the names of Alexandre, Ricardo or Daniel. He calls himself a surgeon or an engineer, Argentinean or Brazilian. He lives with four women at the same time, adapting his story and even his personality traits to each one. A first-person investigation with the help of a private detective on a fraud with a thousand faces.
The Fix
In a future where the very air is toxic, a model takes a drug which causes her body to transform.
Lead And Copper
An investigation into the Flint Water Crisis and what lead up to it.
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Tension mounts on a passenger train after it is stopped by paramilitaries.
Alien Country
Reeling from the news of an unexpected pregnancy, Jimmy and Everly unknowingly release an alien invasion in their small town and learn to work together in order to save each other, their town and evidently, the entire galaxy.

Features

Interview with Kim Sung Soo about 12.12: The Day
22 Nov 2024
Kim Sung Soo on capturing history and getting a shot at an Oscar with 12.12: The Day
Interview with Jayro Bustamante about Rita
19 Nov 2024
Jayro Bustamante on giving the girls of Hogar Seguro a voice in Rita
Interview with Michael Felker about Things Will Be Different
14 Nov 2024
Michael Felker on how he learned to time travel and Things Will Be Different
Interview with Anthony Waller about The Piper
13 Nov 2024
Anthony Waller on guilt, ambiguity and being married to Elizabeth Hurley in Piper
Interview with Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick about The Blair Witch Project
08 Nov 2024
Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick on The Blair Witch Project

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Galleries

EIFF 2011 Gallery
25 Jun 2011
The Raid - Promotional Gallery
17 May 2012
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