Amyana Bartley
Tomatometer-approved critic
I am a screenwriter and film producer who recently launched my own production company, set upon lifting marginalized, talented artists and creating a platform for real jobs for those artists. I am an outspoken advocate for social justice online; feminism, disability rights, LGBTQ rights, race and religious equality. As I've been building my company I've been using my voice to lift unknown talent through my reviews. Nothing feels greater to me than to help an artist begin to realize their dreams. Find out more about my company at www.qbphive.com
Movies reviews only
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Sign the Show: Deaf Culture, Access & Entertainment (2021) |
Brewer creates her freshman film with abundant heart and meticulous singularity on a subject that, until now, hasn’t had a spotlight. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Feb 18, 2023
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Little Nicholas (2022) |
Little Nicholas is absolute magic! It is a story about friendship, chasing your dreams and keeping hope alive in dark times. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Jan 14, 2023
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The Harbinger (2022) |
The stand outs are the moody cinematography and the eminently focused performance by Gabby Beans. But the predominantly failed script shadowed over a concept that, if developed with more heart and insight, might have turned into a genuinely scary film. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Dec 04, 2022
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Vesper (2022) |
Buozyte and Samper, along with their visual and special effects crew, create a rich and dazzling world not yet seen before - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Oct 12, 2022
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Medieval (2022) |
Zizka could be an exciting character to follow. As it is though, this particular film is just “there”, never rising to any breathtaking crescendo. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Sep 08, 2022
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The Sea Beast (2022) |
The Sea Beast is a welcome change from all the films based upon books, comics or graphic novels. I felt a sense of comforting familiarity that I had as a person who grew up with a plethora of original screenplay films. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Jul 08, 2022
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Kaepernick & America (2022) |
Kaepernick and America brings into focus one man’s struggle with the systemic racism that has haunted America since its beginning. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Jun 22, 2022
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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022) |
Thought you knew all the ways that toxic patriarchy seeps into your brain and creates the way you view and think about women? Think again. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Jan 29, 2022
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Prayers for the Stolen (2021) |
Prayers For the Stolen is a beautifully filmed, heartfelt and heartbreaking feature that demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Dec 29, 2021
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White on White (2019) |
The message gets quietly branded on your soul. It may not affect those with privilege as much, but for women and people of color, it's a reminder of the history of violence we descend from and the tightrope we still walk where "male and white is right". - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Dec 16, 2021
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A La Calle (2021) |
A La Calle stands as a towering rallying cry for the oppressed across the globe. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Sep 27, 2021
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Rare Beasts (2019) |
Rare Beasts is a look into broken people attempting to find love and acceptance, at the cost of their dignity. It seems to be a commentary regarding how alike so many of us are in our insecurities under the weight of toxic society. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Aug 23, 2021
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The Body Fights Back (2020) |
The Body Fights Back is an effective, all encompassing overview of the adverse, repugnant repercussions caused by the toxic, fat phobic diet and food industry. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Aug 02, 2021
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The Legend of the Underground (2021) |
Legend of the Underground stands strong as a crucial part of the international conversation we need to be having concerning human rights. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Jul 06, 2021
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Wrath of Man (2021) |
Wrath of Man is another example of a filmmaker with privilege using his status to push through a shoddily thrown together script and spending reckless amounts of money on something with no heart or point - QBP Reviews
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| Posted May 15, 2021
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The Power (2021) |
With skillful and genuinely frightening scares, Faith creates a wake up call for all who are watching. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Apr 11, 2021
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Violation (2020) |
With stunning, sensual cinematography and two leads with off-the-charts chemistry, Violation delves deep into the darkness where sexuality crosses into violence and the capability of violence to send the human psyche into splintered hell. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Mar 22, 2021
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Mass (2021) |
Kranz's feature debut is outstanding. Full of heart, honesty and naked vulnerability, you could tell that he was just as invested in this project as the awe-inspiring actors. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Feb 08, 2021
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Shadow in the Cloud (2020) |
Max Landis's name belongs on a "feminist film", the way Harvey Weinstein belongs facilitating a victims of sexual assault support group. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Jan 03, 2021
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Landfall (2020) |
As a viewer, you will not get from Landfall what you get from most documentaries. It's not traditionally set up but it definitely communicates. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Nov 17, 2020
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Followed (2018) |
Followed, with its contrived shaky ghosts and shoddy script, is this generations answer to The Shining and 1408, without the compelling stories. - Film Inquiry
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| Posted Oct 09, 2020
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Coming Clean (2020) |
It is crucial to see this film and inform yourself about the horrific greed/racism behind the profits made from people's pain. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Oct 01, 2020
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#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump (2020) |
#Unfit represents a wake up call to those of us who know better, to do better. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Aug 30, 2020
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Summerland (2020) |
Summerland is full of heart, honesty, beauty and breathtaking cinematography. Arterton and Mbatha-Raw give poignant performances worthy of accolades. Their chemistry tingles and their longing is heart wrenching. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Aug 04, 2020
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Relic (2020) |
I wish the script/the way the film was put together, had complimented and partnered with Charlie Saroff's elegant cinematography and the rest of the film's technical beauty, but it unfortunately got lost and fell flat within its own demented obscurity. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Jul 06, 2020
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020) |
Miss Fisher is a solid, consistent character with a whole lot of charisma - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Apr 11, 2020
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The Other Lamb (2019) |
Writer C.S. McMullen and Director Melgorzata Szumowska, along with Cinematographer Michal Englert created a haunting yet hypnotic feminine awakening into empowerment that I couldn't wrest my eyes from - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Apr 02, 2020
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Coded Bias (2020) |
Kantayya makes a strong and compelling argument that everyone needs to pay attention to. Not only do we need to be talking about this, but we, the people, need to be doing more about this. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Mar 15, 2020
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Beware of Dog (2020) |
Beware of Dog is a timely, necessary film. Bedzhanova weaves together an international tapestry of troubled souls while calling attention to some of the worldwide political landscapes we are living through now. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Feb 07, 2020
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A Girl From Mogadishu (2019) |
The film is a good springboard to learning more about this courageous hero working to make a positive change to a brutal practice steeped in toxic masculinity. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Dec 08, 2019
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) |
Making Waves is more than a film school primer, standing in its own right as a comprehensive homage to the art that is Sound in Film and an impressive first time documentary from an accomplished sound artist - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Nov 03, 2019
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Hava, Maryam, Ayesha (2019) |
Hava Maryam Ayesha, illustrates the way that 3 different women live today in Afghanistan, giving the world an up close look at something that has been hidden from us for far too long. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Sep 24, 2019
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Being Frank (2018) |
Director Miranda Bailey put together an overall enjoyable film reminiscent of the sleeper films of an era of filmmaking that is altogether lost - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Jul 06, 2019
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Muse (2019) |
The brilliance of this film lies not in what is said, but all that is left unsaid. The hypnotic imagery play upon the senses almost as if it were a moving painting. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Jun 19, 2019
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Captain Marvel (2019) |
Without the input from female writers/directors like Anna Boden, this film would not have resonated so much. Its subtle and not so subtle nuances required its creators to understand how it feels to live under an oppressive thumb in every facet of life. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Mar 24, 2019
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Advocate (2019) |
Jones creates an effective, all-encompassing view of Tsemel's life and paints a picture of an all but unheard of Israeli justice system steeped in bias and Zionism. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Feb 25, 2019
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Sea of Shadows (2019) |
Using captivating imagery, fast-paced intrigue and authentic ticking clocks, Sea of Shadows captivates the viewer from scene one. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Feb 12, 2019
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Polterheist (2018) |
Gilbank, along with co-writers Gemma Head and Paul Renhard, achieves the harshness, savagery, misogyny and grit of the drug underworld, while bringing the ideal balance of humor to make the content both fun and easier to watch. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Jan 15, 2019
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Rust Creek (2018) |
...what looks on the surface to be a film we've seen a thousand times, turns out to be a multi-layered, multifaceted convolution of curve balls and metaphor. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Jan 03, 2019
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Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer (2018) |
From the shaky animation and the no point script to the anemic at best humor and no actual lessons for the viewer or the protagonist, this film simply isn't worth it. - Film Inquiry
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| Posted Dec 14, 2018
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Ekaj (2015) |
Gonzales's ability to tell a story using fast-paced imagery is unlike anything I've seen before. She never wastes a single second...instead choosing a photographic approach to film that echoes the moment to moment lives of these homeless youth. - QBP Reviews
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| Posted Nov 25, 2018
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Ophelia (2018) |
It would be easy to be seduced by Ophelia's visual beauty alone and call it good, but, for a smashing review, I am seeking something fully fleshed out and ripened. - Film Inquiry
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| Posted Nov 17, 2018
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Time Trap (2017) |
What started with a very cool concept ended up tripping over itself time and time again. - Film Inquiry
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| Posted Nov 05, 2018
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Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram (2018) |
Stolen Daughters is a wake-up call for the world about another area of Africa riddled in war. - Film Inquiry
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| Posted Oct 27, 2018
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The Answer (2015) |
One review simply can't express all of the beauty this film has to offer. It's no easy feat to write an intriguing film surrounding a group of men hiking, but Wofford knocks it out of the park on a shoestring budget. - Film Inquiry
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| Posted Oct 11, 2018
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Between the Shades (2019) |
It is an honest, considerate and necessary conversation. - Film Inquiry
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| Posted Oct 10, 2018
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City of Joy (2016) |
With an unapologetic, feminine roar, City Of Joy takes on a wholly ignored genocide, racism, toxic masculinity and bloodthirsty, criminal greed. It is a rallying cry for survivors of violence and product consumers. - Film Inquiry
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| Posted Oct 08, 2018
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Night Comes On (2018) |
It is a film that will pull at your heartstrings while inciting anger over a broken system that fails our children. - Film Inquiry
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| Posted Aug 04, 2018
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Her Composition (2015) |
As a first-time feature for writer/director Littger though, Her Composition is ambitious and full of earnest affectivity. - Film Inquiry
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| Posted Jul 20, 2018
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What We Started (2017) |
What We Started brings together a group of the star DJ's from the 80's and 90's while mixing in one of the newest, hottest DJ's of today. It delivers all of the heart-pumping excitement and energy that is Electronic Dance Music. - Film Inquiry
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| Posted Jul 06, 2018
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