Streaming services giveth, and streaming services taketh away. Simply put, content gets removed from the various online platforms as often as its added. Case in point: Adrian Dunbar’s period drama Emily.
The 2022 film, written and directed by actor-turned-filmmaker Frances O’Connor, features a stacked cast that includes Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead, Gemma Jones, Alexandra Dowling and Oliver Jackson-Cohen.
The partly-fictional story focuses on legendary novelist Emily Brontë (Mackey) and how her relationship with William Weightman (Jackson-Cohen) became the inspiration for her classic novel Wuthering Heights.
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The film will be removed from Netflix on 22 October, which is only about six months since it was added to the service. And at the time of writing, it’s not available on any other streaming services.
Why is the film worth watching? Well, we at Digital Spy gave it a very strong 4/5 in our review, lauding it as a “riveting feature debut” from O’Connor.
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“Emma Mackey immerses herself into this role, capturing both Emily’s intensity and ferocity… and the chemistry between Mackey and Oliver Jackson-Cohen is magnetic on screen,” we added.
We weren’t the only ones to praise Emily, with the period drama currently having an impressive approval rating of 87% on Rotten Tomatoes from 134 reviews.
“A ravishing period drama that plays fast and loose with the facts in order to paint a portrait of the author that bleeds with the same heart-in-its-hands emotionality she had to suffuse into her work,” opined IndieWire.
“The film empowers Brontë’s sometimes turbulent emotions, setting environments according to the author’s moods in ways that can be riveting,” wrote The Guardian in another positive review.
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Other films leaving Netflix around the same time next month include action flick Van Helsing, acclaimed period drama Schindler’s List, iconic comedy-drama The Truman Show and survival thriller Cast Away (via New On Netflix UK).
Meanwhile, Dunbar recently gave us the most positive update about the long-awaited seventh season of Line of Duty, teasing: “We’re really excited about getting our hands on a Line of Duty script, to see what happens to us. Jed [Mercurio] is writing.
“We’ve talked to the BBC. It is down to the BBC to make an announcement, but we’re keeping our fingers crossed that next year we’ll be working on a new series. No doubt Jed will think of some interesting twists and turns.”
Emily is still available to stream on Netflix for now.
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Joe Anderton is a freelance news writer at Digital Spy, having worked there since 2016. In his time, he’s covered a host of live events and interviewed celebrities big and small. A big fan of TV and movies both mainstream and obscure, Joe also enjoys video games and in particular PlayStation. Joe currently does not use Twitter, but he only ever used it to tell people to watch the film Help! I’m a Fish.