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Amber Wilkinson

Being editorial director of Eye For Film means that Amber gets to go globetrotting to festivals quite often. While that may periodically limit her access to popcorn movies, it's probably better for her waistline that way, and she gets to watch a vast amount of world and independent cinema that everyone else would love, too, if only they gave it a go. She secretly likes to watch The Man With Two Brains and Blazing Saddles late at night to unwind.

Amber is a member of the Online Film Critics Society, and FIPRESCI, the international federation of film critics and has served on its juries in Seattle, Palm Springs, San Sebastian and Gijon. She attended the first FIPRESCI colloquium on Russian Film in St Petersburg and has tutored young critics in workshops at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Warsaw Film Festival and Miskolc Cinefest. She has recently be on the juries for the annual East - West. The Golden Arch Eurasian film awards and the Arab Cinema Centre Critics' Awards.

She is a Tomatometer critic at Rottentomatoes, and has written on film for outlets including The Times, The Telegraph and The Daily Record in the UK, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in Australia, The National in Abu Dhabi and Filmmaker Magazine in the US, the Radio Times, plus film trade magazine Screen International.

In addition to written criticism, she also talks about film from time to time on BBC Radio Scotland.

You can also find her rambling (twambling?) over on Twitter (@NinjaWorrier) and LinkedIn. Email her (while taking her hat off) amber(chapeau)@eyeforfilm.co.uk

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Latest Film Reviews

Hitchcock: The Beginning
Collection of early Alfred Hitchcock films, released to celebrate the 125th anniversary of his birth.

Juno And The Paycock
A Dublin family on the breadline think their luck may be about to change when they hear about an inheritance.

Becoming Hitchcock - The Legacy Of Blackmail
A consideration of themes that run through the works of Alfred Hitchcock, focusing on the turning point of Blackmail.

Queer
A louche older man pursues a younger boy toy in Mexico City before the pair go on the hunt for psychedelics in Ecuador.

Number Seventeen
A necklace leads to mystery and revelation in this crime satire.

The Waiting Game
Documentary charting the pension fight of former American Basketball Association players.

On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
Absurdist drama sees family secrets gradually revealed during the preparations for a funeral.

Porcelain War
Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.

When The Walnut Leaves Turn Yellow
A Kurdish village chief tries to navigate societal pressures and his relationship with his son while facing ill health.