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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 recently published a new book, Transgender Employees in the Workplace: a Guide for Employers.

Jennie is a member of the Online Film Critics Society and Criticwire. She is also a Rotten Tomatoes registered Tomatometer critic.

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Latest Film Reviews

Who Is Arthur Chu?
A documentary portrait of the Jeopardy winner and activist.

Hangman
A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game Hangman.

Child Of Satan
A pregnant woman battles the evil lurking within as her adulterous husband hides a dark secret that may lead to human extinction.

Carter And June
An inexperienced gangster tries to rob a bank to impress a girl.

Afghan Cycles
Young Afghan women fight for the right to ride bicycles.

Island Zero
A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realise that someone - or something - is hunting them.

Allure
When adult Laura offers teenage Eva an escape from her repressive home life, the unbalanced pairing brings into question dynamics of age and maturity, dominance and submission.

The Seagull
A love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.

Mountain
Documentary about the world's highest peaks.

Train To Zakopané
A successful young Jewish Russian businessman meets a captivating nurse in the Polish army on a train-trip to Warsaw and is faced with a life-changing dilemma when he discovers that she's fiercely anti-Semitic.