Mark Kermode (born 2 July 1963) is an English film critic who regularly writes for Sight and Sound magazine and The Observer newspaper. He reviews films on Simon Mayo's BBC Radio Five Live show on Friday afternoons, and is also the resident movie critic for The Culture Show. He is also a critic on other branches of the arts for the BBC Two programme Newsnight Review, and appears regularly on BBC News 24.

In The Screen Directory's chart of best ever film critics, Kermode appears at number 10.

Mark Kermode began his career in film journalism and broadcasting in the 1980s after studying English at Manchester University, where he wrote his Ph.D thesis on horror fiction. After starting work as a van driver (he claims he was appointed as a film critic after he crashed the van), he began working for magazines such for City Life, Time Out and the NME and since then has also worked for The Independent, The Guardian, Vox, Empire, Flicks, Fangoria, and Neon among others. In the early 1990s he moved into radio broadcasting, contributing to and presenting various programmes and shows on BBC radio networks. He also worked as film critic and presenter for Channel 4's 'Extreme Cinema' strand, introducing notorious films such as "Crash" and "Man Bites Dog", and he wrote and presented many documentaries for Channel 4 and the BBC such as In Search of the Blair Witch, On the Edge of Blade Runner, and Scream and Scream Again: A History of the American Slasher Movie, Fear of God: 25 Years of the Exorcist and Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing the French Connection etc. His trademark intense, often frightening rants about various films which he likes or dislikes has earned him something of a 'cult' following in the UK.