If you're a history nerd there's a lot to quibble over, but Frances O’Connor's film is about passion, not facts.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2024

For a film about a literary legend, Emily spends a somewhat dissatisfying amount of time on the creative process.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2024

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 3, 2024

In the midst of the impressive gale of feelings and stylistic brouhaha conjured up by O’Connor stands Mackey, Emily‘s pillar of strength.

| Feb 8, 2024

Frances O’Connor’s stunning debut finds poignant truths in speculation.

| Nov 2, 2023

Forlorn silences, haunting visuals, and awkward touches and glances make Emily a wonderful interpretation, if not, a reimagining of the beloved novelist’s life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2023

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.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 8, 2023

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2023

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.

| Original Score: A | Jul 20, 2023

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.

| Apr 1, 2023

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.

| Mar 27, 2023

"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.

| Mar 26, 2023

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.

| Mar 16, 2023

Despite strong visual appeal and a star performance from Emma Mackey this rendering of the Brontë family saga gets almost everything wrong.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 8, 2023

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.'

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 7, 2023

I was disappointed. This is is very fan-fictiony. The Greatest Showman of Emily Bronte movies

| Mar 3, 2023

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.

| Mar 3, 2023

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.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 3, 2023

“Emily” is an atmospheric flight of fancy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2023

Acting is intense, especially by Emma Mackey as Emily.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2023