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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 @[email protected]

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Latest Film Reviews

Wrath Of The Gods
The North Sea island of Hel is cloaked in mystery, myth and misogyny. Isolated because the local community despise her, Anna is torn between the ghosts of the past and the gods of the present as an ill wind blows through, and young girls vanish.

Our Effed Up World
Sheri thought her biggest problem in life was dealing with the recent loss of her beloved grandma. But when a mysterious entity crash lands in the woods, only she and her group of friends are what stands in the way of an insatiable, intergalactic hunger.

If I Tell You
12-year-old Michael enjoys a carefree boyhood until the day his mother comes home with a black eye and a busted lip.

Another
Joey is a grief-stricken author haunted by the death of her husband Ben, a brilliant physicist. When he inexplicably appears one morning, alive and well, making breakfast in their kitchen, Joey is thrust into a waking nightmare where grief, memory, and her reality begin to unravel.

The Abominable Snowman
Two men with opposing views going on a Yeti expedition in the Himalayas. A gunrunner plans to capture and exploit the legendary creature, while a botanist thinks research is more important.

& Sons
A writer tries to reconnect with his sons.

Tokyo Burst: Crime City
A rookie detective from Tokyo’s red-light district must team up with a counterpart from Seoul with equally questionable practices, to track down a dangerous criminal spreading terror across Japan, Korea, and the Philippines.

Holy Days
A Maori boy who misses his deceased mum goes on a road trip with three nuns who are trying to save their convent from developers.

The Occupant Of The Room
A schoolteacher's late-night arrival at a hotel in the Alps without a reservation leaves him with no option but to accept the room of a missing hotel guest - leading to a sleepless night full of strange and uncanny occurrences

The Fated Hour
Three days before her wedding, a deeply troubled woman tells her fiancé the story of her dead sister and the terrible prophecy that haunts her.