Thematic rigor mortis sets in long before the final reel.

| Jan 3, 2011

takes its ambiguities all the way to the grave - and beyond.

Full Review | Sep 7, 2010

Proposes a novel scenario, but bogs it down with cliche filmmaking techniques so much, you'll be hoping we all just die and go to heaven; end of story.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 13, 2010

It dresses up boilerplate horror in a classy shell, yet never gives it the pulse it needs.

| Original Score: 5.2/10 | Jul 17, 2010

A stylish piece of horror-movie hokum.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

It's too dull for grown-ups and too nightmarish for children. It makes Nip/Tuck look like a Mel Brooks musical.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 14, 2010

Best of all is Neeson, who is nicely creepy. Whether he's genuinely gifted or knuckle-chewing insane, he's not the kind of guy you'd want to spend time with, either way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2010

Boring horror movies are common but what distinguishes After.Life is the pretension with which the boredom is doled out.

| Apr 9, 2010

Ms. Wojtowicz-Vosloo seems to have spent too much time trying to make an art-house chiller instead of an effective film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 9, 2010

I don't think we're expected to take After.Life any more seriously than Ricci's last extended (near) nude role in the immortal Black Snake Moan. That one was more fun.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 9, 2010

While nobody comes out especially well, Ricci is the only one required to spend much of the movie naked. And for what?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2010

The dialogue is clumsy, the tone swings between somber and silly and the whole bizarre venture eventually succumbs to rigor mortis.

| Apr 8, 2010

A few moments of grim humor simply underline long stretches of tedium, and the imagery is full of spook film cliches. Although there's a juicy role for Liam Neeson, and he's good, it's just not enough.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 8, 2010

Neither horrific enough to scare, nor psychologically thrilling enough to even register a pulse. And whatever fun there is to be found, and there were hoots aplenty, it's of the "laughing at, not with" variety.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 8, 2010

Maddeningly inert [and] caught in a pretentious no-man's land between horror and melodrama.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 8, 2010

Wojtowicz-Vosloo just piles on the nonsense back and forth in a laughably incomprehensible muddle.

Full Review | Apr 8, 2010

On a plot level, few of the psychodrama elements make much sense.

| Apr 8, 2010

Clean, precise and terribly sullen, After.Life is like its female protagonist. It feels stuck between worlds, or genres.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 8, 2010

I think, in a way, the film short-changes itself by not coming down on one side or the other. As it stands, it's a framework for horror situations but cannot be anything deeper.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 8, 2010