My Name Is Emily

Name: My Name Is Emily
Genre: Drama
Released: February 17, 2017
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 55

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Orion Pictures | Release Date: February 17, 2017 | Not Rated

Summary: A teenage girl runs away from a foster home with the boy who loves her. She searches for her visionary writer father who is locked up in a psychiatric institution. It is a story of redemption.

Director: Simon Fitzmaurice

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Serena Donadoni

Feb 16, 2017

My Name Is Emily gets lighter as it goes along, releasing tension and pretension for a pleasant, routine ride. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Feb 2, 2017

The winsome Lynch, narrating her story and irresistibly (to Auden) poker-faced in her dealings with the outside world, makes a heroine worth knowing and following to the ends of Ireland, with or without a wand. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Feb 16, 2017

It’s a sometimes rocky road cinematically, slipping from enchanting to trite, magical to indulgent with some regularity. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Feb 21, 2017

While its narrative elements threaten at times to descend from whimsical into hopelessly twee, My Name Is Emily ultimately finds a proper, if not particularly compelling, balance. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Feb 15, 2017

the film thrums with an urgency that’s both asset and liability, at once invested with deep feeling and undone by a barrage of flashbacks, allusions, and counterintuitive bits of wisdom. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Feb 17, 2017

The best thing about Emily is that she’s played by Evanna Lynch. Lynch, who played the charmingly abstracted Luna Lovegood in some of the Harry Potter pictures, has grown into a young woman who looks like a rougher-edged Saoirse Ronan. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Jul 3, 2022

The path of this coming of age story is predictable, practical and accessible.
It's average, but that doesn't imply negativity in terms of quality, it's just that its effectiveness lies with Evanna Lynch and her performance, not what the film manages to give her in terms of betterThe path of this coming of age story is predictable, practical and accessible.
It's average, but that doesn't imply negativity in terms of quality, it's just that its effectiveness lies with Evanna Lynch and her performance, not what the film manages to give her in terms of better development or execution.
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