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My Take
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.
Overview
Mark Kermode (, 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.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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 62)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Rabbit
- Origin
- Barnet, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television presenter / musician / journalist / film critic
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Manchester
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.