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Amelia's Children

Summary Edward searches for biological family in Portugal. He finds a villa and reunites with his long-lost mother and twin. But their shared past holds a dark secret that will forever change his understanding of his identity and origins.

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • NOS Audiovisuais
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2024
  • NOS Audiovisuais
  • 1 h 31 m

Amelia's Children

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Edward searches for biological family in Portugal. He finds a villa and reunites with his long-lost mother and twin. But their shared past holds a dark secret that will forever change his understanding of his identity and origins.

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
52
33% Positive
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
52
33% Positive
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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75
Mar 1, 2024
It’s the quasi-gothic scenario that’s amusing here, and it’s as fraught as it is straight-forward. That and a perverse sense of humor puts “Amelia’s Children” over the top, though it’s never quite ha-ha hard enough to be satirical, nor sincere enough to be campy.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
67
Mar 1, 2024
You can almost feel the director coming alive behind the camera whenever Amelia’s Children shifts gears from a gothic horror story to a giallo-inflected satire about the European aristocracy’s penchant for self-preservation at any cost.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 4, 2024
A climactic tilt into a fight for survival remains sharply rendered by Abrantes, but it unfolds towards a forecast destination. The film’s evocative edge is gone.
By J. Kim Murphy FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 1, 2024
Unfortunately, Amelia's Children seems content to coast on the most generic possible avenues the genre can provide, with little to no variation.
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40
Mar 1, 2024
A hilariously awful collision of soap opera and horror movie, Amelia’s Children teeters so precariously on the cliff top of comedy that one wishes the director, Gabriel Abrantes, had dared to kick it over the edge.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
30
Mar 1, 2024
Amelia's Children is a horror film that has moments of unintentional humor, but is ultimately dull rather than some sort of clever dark comedy.
By Chase Hutchinson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Artificial Humors
Release Date Mar 1, 2024
Duration 1 h 31 m
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Tagline A mother's love never dies.
Website https://www.imagemfilmeslatam.com/micrositio/herencia-siniestra
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Awards

Gérardmer Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
MOTELx - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Terror de Lisboa
• 1 Nomination
Toronto International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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