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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsRogerEbert.comSimon AbramsIt’s the quasi-gothic scenario that’s amusing here, and it’s as fraught as it is straight-forward. That and a perverse sense of humor puts “Amelia’s Children” over the top, though it’s never quite ha-ha hard enough to be satirical, nor sincere enough to be campy.
- 67IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichYou can almost feel the director coming alive behind the camera whenever Amelia’s Children shifts gears from a gothic horror story to a giallo-inflected satire about the European aristocracy’s penchant for self-preservation at any cost.
- 60VarietyJ. Kim MurphyVarietyJ. Kim MurphyA climactic tilt into a fight for survival remains sharply rendered by Abrantes, but it unfolds towards a forecast destination. The film’s evocative edge is gone.
- 50Screen RantScreen RantUnfortunately, Amelia's Children seems content to coast on the most generic possible avenues the genre can provide, with little to no variation.
- 40The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisA hilariously awful collision of soap opera and horror movie, Amelia’s Children teeters so precariously on the cliff top of comedy that one wishes the director, Gabriel Abrantes, had dared to kick it over the edge.
- 30ColliderChase HutchinsonColliderChase HutchinsonAmelia's Children is a horror film that has moments of unintentional humor, but is ultimately dull rather than some sort of clever dark comedy.