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Demetrios Matheou

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Demetrios Matheou is a London-based journalist, critic and author. He was the chief film critic for The Sunday Herald in Glasgow between 2004-18, and a contributing film critic for The Independent on Sunday between 2000-2016. He’s currently published in The Times, The Standard, The i, Sight and Sound and Screen Daily, among others. He is also a London theatre critic for The Hollywood Reporter. Demetrios is the author of The Faber Book of New South American Cinema, while contributing to a number of other film titles. He co-curated the retrospective season South American Renaissance for The BFI South Bank and co-founded the London Argentine Film Festival. He's served on the juries of a number of international film festivals.

Articles By Demetrios Matheou

Electra, Old Vic

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The James Plays, National Theatre

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A Most Wanted Man

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True West, Tricycle Theatre

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God's Pocket

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A Streetcar Named Desire, Young Vic

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Richard III, Trafalgar Studios

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Camille Claudel 1915

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Fathers and Sons, Donmar Warehouse

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A Thousand Times Good Night

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theartsdesk in Panama: Hubris, suffering and cinema

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Fatal Attraction, Theatre Royal Haymarket

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Salvo

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Q&A Special: Stranger by the Lake

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Bastards

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Richard II, Barbican

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