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Movie ID: 792
RT slug: emily_2022
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/emily_2022
Release year: 2023
Runtime: 130 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: 2023-02-17
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: —
Tomatometer final: 87%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Directors: Frances O'Connor
Writers: Frances O'Connor
Producers: David Barron, Piers Tempest, Robert Connolly
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-17 18:59:50
Updated: 2026-06-17 18:59:50
EMILY imagines Emily Brontes own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel, "Wuthering Heights." Haunted by the death of her mother, Emily struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for artistic and personal freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time.
With a bracingly irreverent approach to its story and Emma Mackey bringing Bronte vibrantly to life, Emily is a biopic that manages to feel true while taking entertaining creative liberties.
Canonical reviews: 134
Canonical fresh: 117
Canonical rotten: 17
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 87%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-17 13:39:31
Snapshot Tomatometer: 87%
Snapshot review count: 134
Snapshot fresh count: 117
Snapshot rotten count: 17
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| Embankment Films | production |
| Ingenious Media | production |
| Popara Films | production |
| Tempo Productions Limited | production |
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| 1 | Emma Mackey | Emily Bronte |
| 2 | Fionn Whitehead | Branwell Bronte |
| 3 | Oliver Jackson-Cohen | Weightman |
| 4 | Alexandra Dowling | Charlotte Bronte |
| 5 | Amelia Gething | Anne Bronte |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 178149 | Jessica Gonzales | Geek Vibes Nation | Fresh | 8.5/10 | 2025-07-17T04:34:27Z | 2025-07-17 04:34:27 | Frances O’Connor has crafted a beautiful and spellbinding film with Emily that takes into account both the known facets of Emily Brontë’s personality and the unknown ones that were likely present because she was human. |
| 178150 | Maxance Vincent | Film Speak | Fresh | A- | 2025-07-13T23:15:13Z | 2025-07-13 23:15:13 | Emily is a spectacular work, anchored by an incredible Emma Mackey, who commands the screen as soon as the film opens. |
| 178151 | Francesca Steele | iNews.co.uk | Fresh | 4/5 | 2024-12-11T00:09:07Z | 2024-12-11 00:09:07 | If you're a history nerd there's a lot to quibble over, but Frances O’Connor's film is about passion, not facts. |
| 178152 | William Stottor | Flick Feast | Rotten | 3/5 | 2024-09-03T10:37:39Z | 2024-09-03 10:37:39 | For a film about a literary legend, Emily spends a somewhat dissatisfying amount of time on the creative process. |
| 178153 | Laney Gibbons | Loud and Clear Reviews | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2024-08-03T13:39:37Z | 2024-08-03 13:39:37 | Emily is the kind of film that reminds me why I love cinema, a movie that has been created with the intention and desire to be released on the big screen. |
| 178154 | David Bax | Battleship Pretension | Fresh | — | 2024-02-08T04:05:09Z | 2024-02-08 04:05:09 | In the midst of the impressive gale of feelings and stylistic brouhaha conjured up by O’Connor stands Mackey, Emily‘s pillar of strength. |
| 178155 | Prabhjot Bains | Tilt Magazine | Fresh | — | 2023-11-02T14:00:18Z | 2023-11-02 14:00:18 | Frances O’Connor’s stunning debut finds poignant truths in speculation. |
| 178156 | Nuha Hassan | Nuha Hassan (Medium) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-09-08T17:58:47Z | 2023-09-08 17:58:47 | Forlorn silences, haunting visuals, and awkward touches and glances make Emily a wonderful interpretation, if not, a reimagining of the beloved novelist’s life. |
| 178157 | Laura Delaney | RTÉ (Ireland) | Fresh | 5/5 | 2023-08-08T22:34:41Z | 2023-08-08 22:34:41 | Anchored by Emma Mackey's superb performance as the woman in question, the richly fictionalised tale acquaints viewers with the suffocated identity of a repressed young writer battling to take charge of her own story. |
| 178158 | Erik Childress | Movie Madness Podcast | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2023-07-31T14:18:12Z | 2023-07-31 14:18:12 | Emma Mackey is a stellar presence that does her best to hold all the details of this story together, especially in a fantastic seance sequence, but leading her into a forbidden Jane Austen like romance instead of her creativity cheats her real-life figure |
| 178159 | Gissane Sophia | Lady Geeks Media | Fresh | A | 2023-07-20T05:10:38Z | 2023-07-20 05:10:38 | It’s a thoughtful movie crowded with quiet confessions in a room full of people, the perils of intimacy, the heartbreaks that stay and linger, and the many difficulties women face, especially when misunderstood. |
| 178160 | Clement Tyler Obropta | Film Inquiry | Fresh | — | 2023-04-01T03:08:35Z | 2023-04-01 03:08:35 | Whether you’ve read it or not doesn’t matter anyway; the film is about the woman, not her novel and Emily is a bold introduction to the writer. |
| 178161 | Eileen Jones | The Jacobin | Rotten | — | 2023-03-27T22:47:04Z | 2023-03-27 22:47:04 | Emily Brontë is one of the most uniquely brilliant women writers who ever lived, the perfect subject for a feminist biopic. She deserves better than the shallow pop feminism of the new movie Emily. |
| 178162 | Michael Calleri | Niagara Gazette | Fresh | — | 2023-03-26T11:14:34Z | 2023-03-26 11:14:34 | "Emily” has an engaging energy that may belie the era in which it's set, but it’s certainly enjoyable. There’s an intensity that we don’t often experience in today’s homogenized movies. It’s about a woman committed to her own understanding of freedom. |
| 178163 | Rubén Rosario | MiamiArtZine | Fresh | — | 2023-03-16T21:18:54Z | 2023-03-16 21:18:54 | With its charismatic stars, its subject's name recognition and just damn good moviemaking, it's a shame the film is flying under the radar. |
| 178164 | Rex Reed | Observer | Rotten | 2/4 | 2023-03-08T19:36:35Z | 2023-03-08 19:36:35 | Despite strong visual appeal and a star performance from Emma Mackey this rendering of the Brontë family saga gets almost everything wrong. |
| 178165 | Ruth Maramis | FlixChatter Film Blog | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-03-07T20:31:25Z | 2023-03-07 20:31:25 | A well-researched & atmospheric speculative biopic of Emily Brontë with the exquisite Emma Mackey in the title role. There's certainly an eerie gothic touch that's in line with 'Wuthering Heights.' |
| 178166 | Rachel Wagner | Rachel's Reviews (YouTube) | Rotten | — | 2023-03-03T23:11:19Z | 2023-03-03 23:11:19 | I was disappointed. This is is very fan-fictiony. The Greatest Showman of Emily Bronte movies |
| 178167 | Colleen Morrissey | Chicago Reader | Fresh | — | 2023-03-03T20:11:46Z | 2023-03-03 20:11:46 | If one does not look to Emily to adhere too faithfully to historical truth or, indeed, to depict what actual writing is like, then it is a satisfying—or at least benign—story. |
| 178168 | Audrey Fox | Looper.com | Fresh | 9/10 | 2023-03-03T15:30:25Z | 2023-03-03 15:30:25 | Emma Mackey is a clear standout in an incredibly demanding role, and together with O'Connor, puts together a dynamic, intriguing character study of an author who has so often been defined solely by her creative works. |
| 178169 | Russ Simmons | KKFI-FM (Kansas City) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-03-03T03:40:35Z | 2023-03-03 03:40:35 | “Emily” is an atmospheric flight of fancy. |
| 178170 | Marie Asner | Phantom Tollbooth | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-03-02T21:39:17Z | 2023-03-02 21:39:17 | Acting is intense, especially by Emma Mackey as Emily. |
| 178171 | Peg Aloi | Arts Fuse | Fresh | — | 2023-03-02T20:20:45Z | 2023-03-02 20:20:45 | Despite some occasional missteps of mood and underdeveloped subtexts, Emily traverses this vision of liberation with enormous sensitivity and daring. |
| 178172 | Neal Pollack | Book & Film Globe | Rotten | 3/5 | 2023-03-01T18:24:28Z | 2023-03-01 18:24:28 | Emily takes great literary works and places them in surface of a standard romance-novel weeper with a pretentious NPR gloss. |
| 178173 | Steven Prokopy | Third Coast Review | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-02-27T19:04:42Z | 2023-02-27 19:04:42 | Despite its deliberate pacing, the film is a vibrant, passionate, and ultimately moving bit of biographical fiction. |
| 178174 | Edwin Arnaudin | Asheville Movies | Fresh | B+ | 2023-02-26T21:36:48Z | 2023-02-26 21:36:48 | Add Frances O'Connor to the list of talented performers who fare just as well — if not better — behind the camera. |
| 178175 | Frank Swietek | One Guy's Opinion | Rotten | C+ | 2023-02-26T18:52:08Z | 2023-02-26 18:52:08 | Given the enigmatic nature of Brontë’s life, it’s fair to speculate about the incentives behind her writing. But even with the clandestine romance O’Connor postulates, “Emily” is basically just a medium-grade Masterpiece Theatre episode. |
| 178176 | Jeff Mitchell | Phoenix Film Festival | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-02-25T21:52:59Z | 2023-02-25 21:52:59 | Mackey rises to spectacular heights in O’Connor’s passion project, a film with refreshing arthouse touches. |
| 178177 | Robert Denerstein | Denerstein Unleashed | Fresh | — | 2023-02-25T00:50:18Z | 2023-02-25 00:50:18 | Emily may be something better than a straight depiction of Bronte's life: A look at the vital spirit that burned in a writer whose dark novel about ferocious love still resonates almost 175 years after her death. |
| 178178 | Ty Burr | Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-02-24T22:47:09Z | 2023-02-24 22:47:09 | “Emily” is a good, engrossing watch, and it avoids most (but not all) of the genre’s pitfalls. |
| 178179 | Emma Badame | That Shelf | Fresh | — | 2023-02-24T20:22:12Z | 2023-02-24 20:22:12 | Frances O'Connor's fictionalized portrait of author Emily Brontë provides an inspired and atmospheric showcase for a truly magnetic Emma Mackey. |
| 178180 | Robert Horton | The Scarecrow | Rotten | 2/4 | 2023-02-24T19:24:55Z | 2023-02-24 19:24:55 | There may be loftier issues at play for our brooding heroine, but she’s also interested in a little hey-hey in the hayloft, rendered here in the heavy-breathing way you’d expect. |
| 178181 | Eric Marchen | Rogers TV | Fresh | B+ | 2023-02-24T18:34:13Z | 2023-02-24 18:34:13 | Emily like its subject doesn't bend to traditional standards, choosing to define itself through the title character's freethinking mindset. |
| 178182 | James Verniere | Boston Herald | Fresh | A- | 2023-02-24T18:32:32Z | 2023-02-24 18:32:32 | A marvelously resonant and well-acted Gothic romance about the author of the classic "Wuthering Heights" (Cue the Kate Bush hit). |
| 178183 | Jim Judy | Screen It! | Fresh | 6.5/10 | 2023-02-24T16:39:09Z | 2023-02-24 16:39:09 | An intriguing, artsy, and handsomely mounted drama. |
| 178184 | Sarah Boslaugh | TheArtsStl | Fresh | 7/10 | 2023-02-24T14:09:56Z | 2023-02-24 14:09:56 | ...an emotional portrait of a young woman who, despite constrained circumstances, had a wild inner life. |
| 178185 | Adam Graham | Detroit News | Fresh | B | 2023-02-23T22:55:12Z | 2023-02-23 22:55:12 | O'Connor and Mackey together bring their subject to new heights. |
| 178186 | Kate Taylor | Globe and Mail | Fresh | — | 2023-02-23T22:22:27Z | 2023-02-23 22:22:27 | Purists are not going to be pleased... But for the rest of us this fantasy does offer the satisfaction of witnessing the short-lived triumph of a fascinating character. |
| 178187 | Chance Solem-Pfeifer | Willamette Week | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-02-23T20:14:40Z | 2023-02-23 20:14:40 | O’Connor’s script largely invents a web of Brontë family dynamics, positing her path to becoming the lit-loving clan’s simultaneous North Star and black sheep. That’s a welcome alternative to depicting staunch Victorian manners. |
| 178188 | Rob Thomas | Capital Times (Madison, WI) | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-02-23T19:00:17Z | 2023-02-23 19:00:17 | O’Connor has taken the period piece, a venerable genre known for its reserve, and made it feel unpredictable and urgent. |
| 178189 | Alan French | Sunshine State Cineplex | Fresh | 8/10 | 2023-02-23T18:48:43Z | 2023-02-23 18:48:43 | Emily paves the way for Mackey’s big-screen career and showcases her incredible range. |
| 178190 | K. Austin Collins | Rolling Stone | Fresh | — | 2023-02-23T18:35:37Z | 2023-02-23 18:35:37 | It feels more like an effort to make us curious about this woman, whether or not we know or care who she is. And from the moment we see her, we are indeed inclined to be curious. That’s how you know it works. |
| 178191 | Rebecca Murray | Showbiz Junkies | Fresh | B+ | 2023-02-23T18:26:42Z | 2023-02-23 18:26:42 | Mackey’s performance is sheer perfection, and admirers of Emily Brontë can only hope the talented writer lived as rich a life as O’Connor envisioned and Mackey portrays. |
| 178192 | Kimberley Jones | Austin Chronicle | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-02-23T18:06:54Z | 2023-02-23 18:06:54 | Emma Mackey is utterly magnetic. |
| 178193 | Andrew Parker | The Gate | Fresh | 7/10 | 2023-02-23T16:07:12Z | 2023-02-23 16:07:12 | Some purists might bristle at the dramatic treatment of of these historical figures (the sympathy shown towards Branwell, turning Charlotte into a villain), but those in the mood for an intricately crafted character study won’t be let down by Emily. |
| 178194 | Sean Burns | WBUR’s Arts & Culture | Fresh | — | 2023-02-23T15:01:25Z | 2023-02-23 15:01:25 | O’Connor gins up a randy melodrama of missed connections, undelivered letters and deathbed confessions in the doomy, romantic spirit of her subject. |
| 178195 | Randy Myers | San Jose Mercury News | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-02-22T23:15:53Z | 2023-02-22 23:15:53 | A film that doesn’t want to be bound — much like its central character — to one genre or one overall conceit. And that lifts Emily far above other recent, more staid and comfortable biopics. |
| 178196 | Ann Hornaday | Washington Post | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-02-22T19:07:13Z | 2023-02-22 19:07:13 | Frances O’Connor makes a striking directorial debut with a provocatively revisionist biography of Emily Brontë. |
| 178197 | Charles Koplinski | Reel Talk with Chuck and Pam | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-02-22T18:28:52Z | 2023-02-22 18:28:52 | To be sure, “Emily” is a good-looking, well-acted film that serves as interesting mirror-image of “Heights.” While the second act is a bit of a slog, overall, it is an immersive experience, the dark tone of the film impressive and inescapable. |
| 178198 | Liam Lacey | Original Cin | Fresh | B+ | 2023-02-22T12:16:46Z | 2023-02-22 12:16:46 | Frances O’Connor’s creative imagining on the life of the reclusive 19th century author succeeds thanks to the director’s wholesale commitment to her speculative premise, and Emma Mackey’s brooding performance. |
| 178199 | James Berardinelli | ReelViews | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2023-02-22T11:04:28Z | 2023-02-22 11:04:28 | Although there’s nothing especially wrong with Emily, little in the movie causes it to stand apart from other, similar productions. |
| 178200 | Mick LaSalle | San Francisco Chronicle | Rotten | 2/4 | 2023-02-21T20:16:41Z | 2023-02-21 20:16:41 | I’ll tell you who I’d love to have watched this movie with — Emily Bronte. But I doubt she’d have lasted 20 minutes. They say she had a temper. Her review would have been a lot harsher than mine. |
| 178201 | Alan Zilberman | Spectrum Culture | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2023-02-21T17:16:20Z | 2023-02-21 17:16:20 | It is Fleabag minus the self-awareness or humor, two qualities whose absence make the film as dreary as Emily’s frequent trudges through the mud. |
| 178202 | Moira MacDonald | Seattle Times | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-02-21T16:57:00Z | 2023-02-21 16:57:00 | A film about the gifted, strange Brontë sister that mingles fact with imagination to depict Emily’s adult years. |
| 178203 | Andrea Chase | Killer Movie Reviews | Fresh | 5/5 | 2023-02-21T05:04:47Z | 2023-02-21 05:04:47 | Passionate, intelligent, and endlessly imaginative, she is here presented in all her contradictions with tantalizing speculations on what may have been suppressed in those personal letters she tasked her sisters to burn upon her death |
| 178204 | Carla Renata | The Curvy Film Critic | Fresh | — | 2023-02-20T23:25:31Z | 2023-02-20 23:25:31 | Like Wuthering Heights, Emily possesses an atmosphere of something supernatural and emotional embedded in a story that is domestic and viscerally real. Frances O'Connor's directorial debut is spot and Emma Mackey is magic! |
| 178205 | Carla Hay | Culture Mix | Fresh | — | 2023-02-19T23:32:17Z | 2023-02-19 23:32:17 | Gorgeously filmed like an Emily Brontë novel come to life, Emily overcomes its occasionally dull moments with very good acting, led by a vibrant performance from Emma Mackey. |
| 178206 | Sheila O'Malley | RogerEbert.com | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-02-18T14:51:54Z | 2023-02-18 14:51:54 | [An] imaginative leap. |
| 178207 | John McDonald | Australian Financial Review | Fresh | — | 2023-02-18T11:40:12Z | 2023-02-18 11:40:12 | O’Connor has given us an imaginative reconstruction of Emily’s life that fills in the blanks in a way some viewers will find highly presumptuous. |
| 178208 | Jocelyn Noveck | Associated Press | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-02-18T02:15:41Z | 2023-02-18 02:15:41 | A bold and audacious retelling of Emily Brontë’s life starring an uncommonly compelling Emma Mackey. |
| 178209 | Kyle Smith | Wall Street Journal | Fresh | — | 2023-02-18T00:50:04Z | 2023-02-18 00:50:04 | A portrait that feels in some sense true and also make viewers so engaged that they’re hungry to learn more about the subject. |
| 178210 | Alonso Duralde | TheWrap | Fresh | — | 2023-02-17T22:27:07Z | 2023-02-17 22:27:07 | O’Connor is hardly bound by history, yet with “Emily” she’s clearly more interested in finding the emotional truth of Emily Brontë’s life than in merely reciting the facts. |
| 178211 | Todd Jorgenson | Cinemalogue | Fresh | — | 2023-02-17T21:21:34Z | 2023-02-17 21:21:34 | This speculative biopic is a bleak yet powerfully compassionate portrait of artistic inspiration. |
| 178212 | Molly Adams | In Review Online | Fresh | — | 2023-02-17T20:15:53Z | 2023-02-17 20:15:53 | Instead of following the typical biopic beats, however, O’Connor’s creative freedom manifests as something slightly more chaotic, forgoing fact in favor of an emotional honesty that feels entirely earned. |
| 178213 | Chris Joyce | Movies and Munchies (YouTube) | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2023-02-17T19:55:58Z | 2023-02-17 19:55:58 | Despite some of the beautiful shots, the great acting of the leads, and the forbidden love story that begins to take shape, this is overall a pretty dull movie to take in. |
| 178214 | Stephanie Zacharek | TIME Magazine | Fresh | — | 2023-02-17T19:40:46Z | 2023-02-17 19:40:46 | Paints a haunting and sympathetic portrait of the person she might have been. |
| 178215 | Tim Cogshell | AV Club | Fresh | B | 2023-02-17T19:13:22Z | 2023-02-17 19:13:22 | O’Connor’s Emily overcomes her quirks, engages her desire, and fulfills her passions—and then some. |
| 178216 | Leah Greenblatt | Entertainment Weekly | Fresh | B- | 2023-02-17T18:29:33Z | 2023-02-17 18:29:33 | Without plunging into full anachronism, the film happily plays both fast and loose with history, its tone frequently wobbling between melodrama, magic realism, and the more traditional structures of classic period drama. |
| 178217 | Emily Bernard | Collider | Fresh | B | 2023-02-17T16:35:33Z | 2023-02-17 16:35:33 | Director Frances O’Connor effortlessly immerses the audience into Emily’s heart, soul, and mind in this refreshing, storybook-like origin story for a reclusive, misunderstood, and underappreciated author. |
| 178218 | Jared Mobarak | Hey, Have You Seen ...? | Fresh | 8/10 | 2023-02-17T14:44:35Z | 2023-02-17 14:44:35 | EMILY is a gorgeous film—emotive, thrilling, and also quite charming whenever it pairs Emily up with another to wryly smile while others scowl at them. Mackey performs the role with an infectious energy that runs through the highs and the lows. |
| 178219 | Laura Miller | Slate | Rotten | — | 2023-02-17T11:32:47Z | 2023-02-17 11:32:47 | [Brontë] deserves more than this biopic’s utter lack of interest in the very thing that made her immortal. Emily is a movie about “writing” that’s forgotten how to read. |
| 178220 | Travis Hopson | Punch Drunk Critics | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-02-17T10:58:46Z | 2023-02-17 10:58:46 | Emily is a bold, confident debut for O’Connor the filmmaker. |
| 178221 | Frank J. Avella | Edge Media Network | Fresh | B | 2023-02-16T21:38:02Z | 2023-02-16 21:38:02 | I am a sucker for a period piece. Toss in sumptuous locales, fab camerawork, good-looking guys, a tinge of Gothic horror (look for the mask), and a wondrous, moving central performance by future gay icon Emma Mackey ("Sex Education"), and I'm hooked. |
| 178222 | Manohla Dargis | New York Times | Fresh | — | 2023-02-16T18:51:48Z | 2023-02-16 18:51:48 | O’Connor’s liberties work for a story that, above all, is about art as an act of radical sovereignty. |
| 178223 | Andy Crump | Paste Magazine | Fresh | 7.7/10 | 2023-02-16T17:41:19Z | 2023-02-16 17:41:19 | O’Connor capitalizes on the wiggle room afforded her by Emily Bronte’s self-isolation from her peers and neighbors to give the great novelist whatever shape she finds pleasing, and a pleasure it is indeed. |
| 178224 | Mark Dujsik | Mark Reviews Movies | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-02-16T15:36:44Z | 2023-02-16 15:36:44 | We feel the pain, longing, and passion of this character in a way that some ordinary, by-the-books biography might not have achieved. |
| 178225 | Justin Chang | Los Angeles Times | Fresh | — | 2023-02-16T12:36:23Z | 2023-02-16 12:36:23 | A movie that delights in hurling caution and historical fidelity to the Yorkshire wind. |
| 178226 | Michael Clark | Epoch Times | Fresh | 5/5 | 2023-02-16T09:05:36Z | 2023-02-16 09:05:36 | Recalling the visual style and spare storytelling acumen of Stanley Kubrick and Terrence Malick, O’Connor’s film is among the most assured and daring debuts ever executed. Her level of confidence exhibited here is otherworldly. |
| 178227 | Avi Offer | NYC Movie Guru | Fresh | — | 2023-02-15T22:58:33Z | 2023-02-15 22:58:33 | Mildly engaging with great production design, but overlong, tedious and shallow. |
| 178228 | Stefan Pape | Common Sense Media | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-02-15T22:33:26Z | 2023-02-15 22:33:26 | What transpires is an intimate character study. But for that to work, a strong central performance is required. Thankfully Mackey more than delivers. |
| 178229 | Rachel LaBonte | Screen Rant | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-02-15T21:38:27Z | 2023-02-15 21:38:27 | Led by a stunning Emma Mackey, Emily is a striking depiction of a woman embracing her individuality while crafting an iconic piece of literature. |
| 178230 | Mike McGranaghan | Aisle Seat | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-02-15T18:25:18Z | 2023-02-15 18:25:18 | Movies of this sort tend to be dry. Not this one. It’s vibrant, entertaining, and often darkly funny. |
| 178231 | Neely Swanson | Easy Reader (California) | Fresh | — | 2023-02-14T18:38:53Z | 2023-02-14 18:38:53 | O’Connor has made very good use of her pout and dark eyes, but Mackey takes full advantage of the script, infusing Emily with a personality of much complexity. |
| 178232 | Laura Clifford | Reeling Reviews | Fresh | A- | 2023-02-14T17:16:16Z | 2023-02-14 17:16:16 | O’Connor weaves themes from ‘Wuthering Heights’ into her partially imagined biopic, love’s pain once again resulting from miscommunication, the supernatural suggested in a séance-like scene in which Emily conjures her mother… |
| 178233 | Don Shanahan | Film Obsessive | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-02-13T22:28:56Z | 2023-02-13 22:28:56 | Before her acclaim on the printed page, Emily Brontë was a lover, a sister, a daughter, and an independent woman of turmoil and ache. Anchored by a stirring lead performance from Emma Mackey, O’Connor’s emotive film seeks to flesh out that very soul. |
| 178234 | Dennis Harvey | 48 Hills | Fresh | — | 2023-02-13T21:10:46Z | 2023-02-13 21:10:46 | It’s a handsome movie with all the usual pleasures of a well-crafted English costume drama. But best to park your need for verifiable biographical accuracy in the lobby beforehand. |
| 178235 | Natasha Alvar | Cultured Vultures | Fresh | 9/10 | 2023-02-13T21:04:19Z | 2023-02-13 21:04:19 | Frances O'Connor's Emily is a visual treat, and will make you feel all the emotions you felt when you read Wuthering Heights for the first time. |
| 178236 | William Repass | Slant Magazine | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-02-13T17:09:34Z | 2023-02-13 17:09:34 | Emily takes advantage of the leeway for speculation afforded by its subject’s reclusive nature. |
| 178237 | Sarah Ward | Concrete Playground | Fresh | — | 2023-01-26T07:43:16Z | 2023-01-26 07:43:16 | To watch Emily is to feel as feverish as O'Connor contends that Emily did, or might've, or could've. |
| 178238 | David Stratton | The Australian | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-01-17T18:41:01Z | 2023-01-17 18:41:01 | This is an auspicious directorial debut for O’Connor, who was born in Britain but who moved to Australia with her parents when she was two years old. |
| 178239 | Peter Gray | The AU Review | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-01-14T12:13:26Z | 2023-01-14 12:13:26 | Sporadically witty and shot with a jarring affinity that reflects the character’s own self-consciousness, Emily should easily satisfy those with an affection for emotionally-charged period dramas. |
| 178240 | Elsa Fernández-Santos | El Pais (Spain) | Fresh | — | 2023-01-13T23:22:46Z | 2023-01-13 23:22:46 | With all its clumsiness, Emily captivates by recreating a far from idyllic family environment, and because of Emma Mackey's performance... [Full review in Spanish] |
| 178241 | Sandra Hall | Sydney Morning Herald | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-01-12T21:47:24Z | 2023-01-12 21:47:24 | This is the way you hope things might have been for Emily simply because it makes her more human. Rather than being an ethereal character entirely caught up in the realms of her own imagination, it puts her in touch with the world the rest of us inhabit. |
| 178242 | Jim Schembri | jimschembri.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-01-12T12:49:13Z | 2023-01-12 12:49:13 | once Emily works through its proto-feminist liberation-through-literature tropes it shapes up as an engaging, if far-from-engrossing, take on the formative years of Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë. |
| 178243 | Andiee Paviour | Nobody's Reading This But Me | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-01-12T01:36:12Z | 2023-01-12 01:36:12 | Author Emily Brontë gets a user-friendly romantic makeover. |
| 178244 | Wenlei Ma | News.com.au | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-01-06T21:14:25Z | 2023-01-06 21:14:25 | Emma Mackey’s appealing performance, a combination of defiance, depth and vulnerability, brings to life an obscured literary figure. |
| 178245 | Whang Yee Ling | The Straits Times (Singapore) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-01-05T22:46:10Z | 2023-01-05 22:46:10 | This rainswept period romance is fervent and sensuous, as if scripted by Emily Bronte herself. |
| 178246 | Katie Hogan | FILMHOUNDS Magazine | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-11-28T23:36:46Z | 2022-11-28 23:36:46 | Director Frances O’Conner’s eye for strained dramatic moments, those that heighten the tension in the scenes, [make] us feel exactly like the characters on screen. |
| 178247 | James Croot | The Post NZ | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-11-17T20:41:55Z | 2022-11-17 20:41:55 | If you’re looking to escape into a character study filled with gorgeous costuming, repressed feelings, caddish behaviour and Line of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar sporting horrendous mutton-chops as Emily’s dad Patrick, then this will be just the ticket. |
| 178248 | Jennie Kermode | Eye for Film | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-11-16T19:05:03Z | 2022-11-16 19:05:03 | O’Connor does not fall for the myth of a romantic place which breeds talent. Instead she recognises the pressure cooker effect of a tightly constrained world. |
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