Avis Metacritic

Alana De Roma is going to be a tremendous star.

A skilled heart-tugger from Australia that verges on rock opera.

Warm of heart, modest in polish, Amy provides satisfactions that must be balanced against its flaws.

The sort of heart-tugger a small group of people will love passionately.

In the end, it trivializes the psychological complexity of the girl's post-traumatic stress and betrays a game group of actors who struggle to find balance between the alternately dark drama and the silly, over-the-top melodrama.

If Tass had found a way to include more playfulness, her film would be more endearing. Instead, she accents the easy bathos of David Parker's script, from the problems of the shrill, cliched neighbors to a finale that plays like a movie of the week.

Your ability to overlook the film's myriad contrivances will ultimately depend on how you react to little De Roma.

Plumbs new depths of craven heartstring-yanking.