After Yang is a poetic & profound look at what it means to be human. The connections we share with one another, the loss of ourselves in technology, & the reconnect that we long for at times.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

The way it handles grief and loss is one of the best explorations ever put to screen, and is worth watching for that alone. It harmoniously combines sci-fi with family drama to create a movie unlike anything we've seen.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2023

After Yang may have some pacing issues, but Kogonada's beautifully thoughtful storytelling and ASKA's unforgettable, tear-inducing score transform this piece into a contemplative, inspirational cinematic experience.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 23, 2023

After Yang finds beauty in the most unexpected ways. It’s a gut-wrenching, soul-stirring story that explores the connections of lineage, family and identity.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2023

Kogonada is the directorial equivalent of a careful tea maker himself, he knows how to infuse his films with complex ideas without getting preachy or overtechnical about it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2023

It turns into an unexpectedly moving exploration of loss as the family cycles through the robot’s memory banks and finds bits of their lives in them.

Full Review | Mar 13, 2023

As the credits roll, you do wonder if the film is philosophical to a fault. Columbus was just as wanderingly cerebral, but maybe because the most integral character departs us so soon, After Yang remains mystifying in a way the director’s debut avoided.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2023

We can never truly know another person. In some ways, we will never fully know ourselves or our relationship with the world. But the search for it, the mystery, the endless pursuit—that’s the beauty of life.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jan 3, 2023

After Yang is visually gorgeous with some of the best production design of the year. Its near-future universe is rendered with subtle perfection by its director, Kogonada.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

AFTER YANG is a marvel of warmth and humanity in a tale about an android and his family who are bereft in his absence. How his death teaches them how to love each other again and find the courage to let go.

Full Review | Dec 28, 2022

Let's just flatly say: Kogonada is a genius.

Full Review | Dec 27, 2022

Farrell is quite wonderful in a role that demands an introspective acknowledgement of these questions and a decision for how to move forward. It's an evolution. A metamorphosis.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 16, 2022

A futuristic portrait of familial loss, After Yang, lingers in the absence of a son left with only the memories to mourn.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Dec 10, 2022

[The film] assumes that the nature of existence is inscrutable and through its imagery and sound finds the unreal to represent what's real... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2022

It’s so restrained, it almost loses its audience, but as a whole, it’s a magical piece of cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2022

[Kogonada] along with cinematographer Benjamin Loeb find the beauty in the mundane... [this is] science fiction at its most meditative.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 13, 2022

A thoughtful, exquisite view of mindfulness and rumination.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2022

The warm atmospherics and clean interiors -- cinematographer Benjamin Loeb deserves praise -- provide a meditative waft to a film that wears its philosophical substance lightly.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2022

With an unusually meditative tone, this drama is set in the future but rooted in timeless human emotions.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2022

... A mature, melancholic meditation on the odd transitional phase that humanity faces today — not quite fully digital, not nearly human enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2022