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Emily

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United Kingdom, United States · 2022
2h 10m
Director Frances O'Connor
Starring Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Alexandra Dowling
Genre Drama, History, Romance

This film goes through the transformative, exhilarating journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers, who died at age 30.

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Screen Daily by Allan Hunter

Mackey convinces us that there are so many more colours to Emily than the ones she is allowed to display. Her thoughtful, understated performance matches a film that teases out the flesh-and-blood emotions from the stuff of gothic romance.

75

IndieWire by David Ehrlich

Even a movie as evocative and well-mounted as this one can’t help but feel like a shadow of a shadow. It traces the silhouette of “The Strange One” without ever achieving the emotionality it needs to feel her touch first-hand.

80

Variety by Jessica Kiang

O’Connor’s well-modulated debut doesn’t pretend to be a faithful recreation of the facts of the Brontës’ lives. Instead it succeeds on a much trickier level, giving us a psychologically vivid Emily who did not write “Wuthering Heights” because a real-life romance unlocked her passionate nature, but whom we’d love to imagine having had such a grand affair, because she was always the woman with “Wuthering Heights” inside her.

80

The Hollywood Reporter by Lovia Gyarkye

With her angular face and penetrating gaze, Mackey commands the screen, confidently shepherding us through Emily’s mercurial moods. Her eyes — darting nervously at one moment, squinting suspiciously at another — tells us what dialogue can’t.

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