Emily

Mackey’s portrayal finds real pathos in Emily as a sort of pioneer in the contradictions of Romanticism, which gave rise to and still inform our contemporary restlessness—isolated, sensitive, buffeted by stormy impulses.

... is a sexy movie. O’Connor finds immense pleasure in awkward touches, stolen glances and overdressed characters tearing away at all the layers they have on.

Frances O'Connor's Emily fills in the blanks on the reclusive Bronte's life.

...an attempt to get close to the most mysterious Brontë, not just as a person but as an artist. 

This is an Emily Bronte for the social media generation, an outsider, looked upon as “strange” in her Yorkshire moorland village of Haworth