Amelia Harvey
Tomatometer-approved critic
I am Bournemouth based entertainment writer, lifestyle blogger and sometimes English teacher. I have over six years of experience writing everything from film reviews to ghostwriting for lifestyle blog and providing copywriting content. I am a big campaigner for the LBGTQ and a fan of drag culture. I am also a huge Buffy and Doctor Who nerd.
Movies reviews only
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You Hurt My Feelings (2023) |
Holofcener is a master at writing about middle-class intellectuals hurting the feelings of others. You Hurt My Feelings also doubles as a deadpan satire on the supportive culture where people must either be very mean or very supportive of others.
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| Posted May 29, 2023
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To Catch a Killer (2023) |
To Catch a Killer works as a police procedural with just enough intrigue to stop it from feeling like a paint-by-numbers crime drama. It wants to make a bold statement about the cultural atmosphere that breeds killers but fails to commit to the cause. - Frame Rated
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| Posted May 22, 2023
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) |
It's hard to watch Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret and not be transported to a certain point in your own life. - Frame Rated
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Ghosted (2023) |
It often feels like Ghosted is throwing everything it can at the wall and hoping at least one thing will stick. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Apr 22, 2023
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Tetris (2023) |
The runtime isn’t helped by the repetitive nature of the script, but it’s nevertheless an eye-opening thriller about the little-known inception of one of the most iconic games in history. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Apr 04, 2023
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Infinity Pool (2023) |
At times this film is hard to follow and—clocking in at nearly two hours—would have benefited from a judicious edit, but the uneven pacing isn’t enough to spoil such a grotesque send-up of a hedonistic holiday where the rules don’t apply. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Mar 21, 2023
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A Little White Lie (2023) |
A Little White Lie, which director Michael Maren adapted from the best-selling novel “Shriver” by Chris Beldon, is an uneven but entirely watchable tale. It’s mostly a farce that occasionally but unsuccessfully dips into rom-com and satire. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Mar 05, 2023
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The Inspection (2022) |
The Inspection fails to push boundaries and remains a surprisingly traditional military training drama. It’s a personal story filled with anger and sadness, but it lacks the layered nuance to pull at the heartstrings. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Feb 17, 2023
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Maybe I Do (2023) |
Thankfully, with two Academy Award-winners in Keaton and Sarandon, combined with Oscar-nommed Macy on fine form, and Richard Gere still exuding the suave charm he did in his 1980s heyday, Maybe I Do is worth watching for their performances alone.
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| Posted Feb 08, 2023
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Shotgun Wedding (2023) |
It has a decent premise, and Jennifer Lopez is at her best as the ass-kicking bride. However, Shotgun Wedding can’t overcome the feeling that there is a better film with this cast, in this location, with this set-up buried under this. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Feb 02, 2023
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The Son (2022) |
Zeller doesn’t know how to address mental health issues let alone write and direct a movie about them. It would be advisable to never show this drama to anyone dealing with a loved one’s mental health or to anyone going through their own struggles. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Alice, Darling (2022) |
Alice, Darling feels like an authentic depiction of domestic abuse. It’s not always physical fights and women cowering with bruises, it’s sometimes a person telling their partner they should diet, that they are not good enough, that they are a bad person. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Jan 24, 2023
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The Menu (2022) |
Ultimately, The Menu isn’t telling us anything we don’t already know. The digs are surface level, the characterisations somewhat heavy-handed, but the script is sharp and darkly funny enough to get away with it. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Nov 21, 2022
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Disenchanted (2022) |
Sadly, Disenchanted can’t capture the magic of the original. While it is bold not to copy the blueprint of the original plot, the end result for this much-awaited sequel is bland and entirely forgettable, wasting the talented cast. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Nov 21, 2022
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) |
With its striking balance of dark comedy, rich performances, and layered characters, The Banshees of Inisherin is McDonagh at his best, weaving a complex world that captures the full spectrum of human emotions. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Oct 25, 2022
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Vengeance (2022) |
It feels like Novak’s trying to use the crime podcast angle to satirise the mythology of a decaying Middle America and explore a creative existential crisis. Instead, we get an enjoyable and genuinely funny satire on the class divide. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Oct 05, 2022
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After Yang (2021) |
If you don’t pay attention, you may miss the beauty of After Yang. It’s not a flashy film and outside of the main concept, little happens, but it poses big questions. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Sep 01, 2022
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The Princess (2022) |
So after over 40 years in the limelight, is there anything left to say about Diana? Perhaps not, if The Princess is anything to go on. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Aug 18, 2022
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Emily the Criminal (2022) |
Emily The Criminal takes a character and a situation many audience members will connect with and throws it away in favour of a generic indie crime finale. The set-up and the lead performance promise far more than the ending of this crime thriller... - Screen Queens
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| Posted Aug 17, 2022
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Elvis (2022) |
Elvis won’t really tell you anything more than you already know about Presley either. It’s not an in-depth look at his psyche or his ground-breaking career. It is, however, an ode to African American culture and its impact on current pop culture. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Jun 28, 2022
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Dual (2022) |
Dual is a fantastic high concept that wastes any potential for action and drama. It often feels like writer-director-producer Riley Stearns came up with a good concept and attached some themes, but failed to fully realise them.
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| Posted Jun 05, 2022
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Benedetta (2021) |
Its proudly tasteless with every frame crammed with flagellations, sex, blood, and blasphemy. And while theres a rich vein of black humour added to this melting pot of sacrilege and rebellion, the end result and intention isnt always clear.
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| Posted Apr 14, 2022
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Mothering Sunday (2021) |
Mothering Sunday does just about skirt the over-explored narrative of classes in early 20th century Britain. Its nice to see the lower classes portrayed as something more than just oppressed, even if Janes rise to a successful author seems unlikely. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Mar 31, 2022
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Framing Agnes (2022) |
Framing Agnes is a thought-provoking and necessary exploration of trans stories, reframing the narrative of the trans community, and opening the vaults of history to a huge range of fascinating voices that had previously been locked away. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Mar 28, 2022
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Being BeBe (2021) |
Branham has too much footage over the years of highs and lows that even she appears to struggle to know what to do with it. She clearly tries to cover too many angles, leaving interesting points feeling like perfunctory footnotes.
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| Posted Mar 28, 2022
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The Worst Person in the World (2021) |
Its not easy to sum up the mood of a generation, but The Worst Person in the World somehow manages it and doesnt become a cliché, a parody, or cruel. Its an extraordinary film that gives the aimless drifters a meaning... - Frame Rated
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| Posted Mar 23, 2022
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X (2022) |
X has no interest in making any sweeping statement about gender, sexuality, or age. Instead, it strips slasher horror down to its core and reminds us of what it was about the genre that made us love it. It's funny, self-aware, and unashamedly gory.
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| Posted Mar 22, 2022
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Creation Stories (2021) |
Creation Stories is a paint by number biopic that overuses narration and cheap editing to try to distract viewers. Perhaps the writers are too close to McGee as this film, as it trivialises the ecstasy driven raves... - Screen Queens
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| Posted Mar 11, 2022
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Asking for It (2021) |
For his debut film, the director and writer, Eamon O Rourke, spends too much time creating an aesthetically pleasing world and not enough giving his flat heroines personalities or things to do. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Mar 01, 2022
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Cyrano (2021) |
This isnt a perfect musical, but its hard not to fall in love with the sheer grandeur. Much like Baz Luhrmann, Wright toes the line between Shakespearian tragedy and a modern music video sensibility. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Feb 26, 2022
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) |
The Eyes of Tammy Faye does restore the dignity of the late evangelist, who passed away in 2007, but it lacks the focus to help audiences truly understand how they ended up in such power and how they lost it almost as quickly - Frame Rated
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| Posted Feb 02, 2022
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Parallel Mothers (2021) |
Approaching a dark cloud over Spain's history, via the more relatable story of motherhood and female friendship, makes the pain more accessible. Parallel Mothers never sugar-coats motherhood or womanhood - Frame Rated
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| Posted Jan 26, 2022
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Belfast (2021) |
This is a surprisingly happy film with some real laugh out loud moments, helped by a skilled cast who easily balances the ups and downs of life in Northern Ireland. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Jan 02, 2022
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Being the Ricardos (2021) |
Being the Ricardos is an enjoyably safe biopic that doesn't gloss over the troubled marriage and the struggles of being a woman in 1950s Hollywood, yet it never really lets you know how influential Ball was. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Dec 28, 2021
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Silent Night (2021) |
The satire that hammers in how bad the situation is isn't funny, it's just sad. This plot desperately needed real humour and lightness as a counterbalance, or else it should have leaned fully into its sentimentality more. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Dec 05, 2021
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Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021) |
Jonathan Larson found beauty in the mundane, and this biographic musical is an ode to his lost creativity. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Nov 22, 2021
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King Richard (2021) |
It's difficult not to fall in love with King Richard, for both the film and the man himself. It's not really a movie about sport, it's a true-life story about a family who refused to let society grind them down. In - Frame Rated
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| Posted Nov 16, 2021
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Spencer (2021) |
Larraín isn't concerned with showcasing the events we all know, instead creating a layered portrait and finding the truths in both her public and private persona. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Nov 16, 2021
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The Beta Test (2021) |
What The Beta Test will do is force you to consider your relationship with the algorithm. The Beta Test is a slick mix of dark satire and detective thriller - Frame Rated
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| Posted Oct 13, 2021
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Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) |
Gunpowder Milkshake is more concerned about looking good than in making sense. Every shot is too meticulously assembled and too stylised for its own good. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Sep 22, 2021
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Best Sellers (2021) |
Caine is clearly having fun, it would have been a delight to see him play up more to this curmudgeonly old writer who captures the hearts of college students across the country. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Sep 19, 2021
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Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021) |
As pleasant as this kitchen sink musical feels, it gets weighed down by its sugary feel-good message of acceptance and bubblegum pop music. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Sep 13, 2021
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Cinderella (2021) |
Cinderella goes exactly in the direction you think it's going to. [Kay] Cannon's liberating ending doesn't quite land, her meek feminist telling almost less-empowering than the original story - Screen Queens
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| Posted Sep 01, 2021
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Naked Singularity (2021) |
The dialogue and the performances feel like they belong in another movie, perhaps one more closely associated with the original source material. Audiences will mourn the film that could have been, peering out through the mundanity of a heist caper. - Screen Queens
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| Posted Aug 05, 2021
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Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) |
Sadly, Space Jam: A New Legacy is a mostly cold and cynical advert for the studio. Jordan gets replaced with a new basketball legend, LeBron James, which sounds like a decent trade, but his wooden performance is one of the main issues here. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Jul 18, 2021
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In the Heights (2021) |
In The Heights is extravagant and lush, poignant, heart-breaking, empathetic, and idealistic. It celebrates a community where every two steps you bump into someone and their dream. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Jun 23, 2021
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Shiva Baby (2020) |
Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott have announced themselves as two of the brightest names in filmmaking with Shiva Baby. Agoraphobic, aggressively funny, this little comedy will stick in your mind long after the shiva's ended and everyone's gone home. - Frame Rated
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| Posted Jun 15, 2021
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Plan B (2021) |
Plan B does the topic a disservice by not making the point about the lack of reproductive rights many people within American have. It's a relief it's not a PSA about safe sex and abortions but ignoring the weight of the topic feels a little disrespectful. - Screen Queens
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| Posted May 25, 2021
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End of Sentence (2019) |
Icelandic director, Elfar Adalsteins, adds to the healing family road trip genre with his debut, End of Sentence. It's a familiar tale that brings nothing new, saved by credible performances and atmospheric Irish scenery. - Screen Queens
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| Posted May 18, 2021
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Four Good Days (2020) |
Four Good Days lacks the dramatic finale act that hits a much-needed emotional punch. While it never stops being convincing, the film is also too earnest and ultimately boring. - Screen Queens
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| Posted May 12, 2021
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