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After

2019

Jenny Gage

Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Selma Blair, Jennifer Beals ...

3.9

2,367

Drama. Romance A young girl falls for a guy with a dark secret and the two embark on a rocky relationship. Based on the novel by Anna Todd, "After" follows Tessa (Josephine Langford), a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart, as she enters her first semester in college. Armed with grand ambitions for her future, her guarded world opens up when she meets the dark and mysterious Hardin Scott (Hero Fiennes ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"I am not a teenage girl (...) But I feel confident that even if I were to be magically transformed into the target demographic, I would still find 'After' to be a cliched, mediocre affair."
		Mark Dujsik rogerebert.com	"The most we get here is a lot of sleepy actors, who perhaps could be mistaken for the undead in certain scenes (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] is an innocuous teen pulp soap opera that flirts with 'danger' but, in fact, keeps surprising you with how mild and safe and predictable it turns out to be."
		Molly Freeman Screen Rant	"A captivating romance (...) Gage's movie does an excellent job in condensing the story to a palatable hour and 46 minutes (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Kimber Myers Los Angeles Times	"The problems may lie in Todd’s novel, but regardless, characters act illogically (...) Character motivations go either unwritten or left on the cutting room floor."
		Caroline Siede AV Club	"'After' thinks it’s beautiful, that’s what makes it tiresome (...) While the average One Direction music video might not have much more intellectual value than 'After', it’s almost certainly more entertaining."
		Frank Ochieng Screen Anarchy	"Another arbitrary toothless, tawdry-challenged teen soap opera that seems chewy in titillation but ends up registering as a notable bust."
		John Fink The Film Stage	"'After' contains too many familiar beats, the predictability of which makes the stakes feel significantly lower (...) The talented cast is burdened by a dead on arrival screenplay"
		Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald	"The teen movie is such an overworked genre (...) that it takes a real talent for originality to mine anything fresh out of it (...) It’s one for only the most avid of Todd fans (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

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