Mark Kermode

Mark Kermode is, to me, proof that film criticism can be performance art in the best sense. Manchester-educated and impossible to pin to a single job, critic, musician, journalist, broadcaster, he built his reputation not on tidy star ratings but on full-throated, passionate argument, most famously alongside Simon Mayo on their long-running review podcast. What I like is that he clearly loves cinema even when he's eviscerating it; the enthusiasm never curdles into mere snark. Voices like his actually enrich how the rest of us watch films. I'd gladly hear his verdict before deciding what to see next.

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Name (English)

Mark Kermode

Name (Japanese)

マーク・カーモード

Reading

まーく・かーもーど

Born

July 2, 1963 (age 63)

Origin

Barnet, United Kingdom

Occupation

television presenter / musician / journalist / film critic

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rabbit

University

University of Manchester

• Official sitehttps://www.markkermode.co.uk
• Xhttps://x.com/kermodemovie
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Kermode
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1282562

Tags

• television presenter
• musician
• journalist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.