It's a movie well made for its target audience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 12, 2019

The key to the book's success lies in its artful amateurism. It replicates the tone of one teen confiding in another and in this anodyne screen translation, its intimacy is lost.

| Jul 1, 2019

The real problem with After is that it's a lifeless slog of thinly written clichés, one that's missing the charismatic spark of the actual One Direction boys.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 12, 2019

Come back, Twilight, all is forgiven.

| Apr 12, 2019

The kind of dispiriting effort that thinks it's scratching an itch for masochistic young girls, but primarily suggests that romance, desire and sexuality aren't worth genuinely exploring.

| Apr 12, 2019

The problems may lie in Todd's novel, but regardless, characters act illogically, as though written by someone who napped through most of Intro to Psych and skipped English 101 altogether.

| Apr 12, 2019

After opens with some narration about how certain moments in life seem to define a person, and from there, the clichés pretty much don't stop.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 12, 2019

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.

| Apr 12, 2019