When it’s over, you come away feeling a little better about people and this sad, hopeful world in which we live.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 23, 2023

A miraculous study of grief, jealousy and ultimately compassion, all executed with very little dialogue.

| Jan 31, 2023

Writer/director Aleem Khan has a gift for telling visual details.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 25, 2023

I tend to chafe at films that would fall apart if only a single person uttered a single sentence. Yet Mr. Khan’s delicate, low-key humanism makes After Love affecting, if not quite spellbinding.

| Jan 19, 2023

Anchored by a nuanced turn from Scanlan that can hang with some of the best Italian Neorealist performances, the film ends up a beautiful, jagged exploration of the messy nature of being human.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 19, 2023

Consider “After Love” a rarity; these days, a good adult drama — the kind whose power is premised on the intricacies and deceptions that shape our everyday relationships — is hard to come by.

| Jan 19, 2023

Only a truly affecting film about grief would leave a viewer wishing it weren’t over so soon.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 18, 2023

Khan’s debut confidently blends old-school melodrama with a contemporary political consciousness...

| Mar 14, 2022

It’s a beautifully restrained yet devastating exploration of love, loss, grief and identity wrapped up in a story that’s not just gripping but also -- prepare yourself for a shock: ready? -- wholly original.

| Feb 10, 2022

It's a giant performance in a perfectly measured film of simmering tensions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2021

English, French and Urdu are spoken, but it's notable just how much Scanlan says without words, her eyes telegraphing earth-shaking revelations even as her lips remain sealed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2021

After Love understands what it means to be an odd fish. There's something about Mary. There really is.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2021

[Joanna] Scanlan's performance is revelatory... After Love is exploratory without being decisive, all anchored by Scanlan's deeply sensitive performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2021

Contrivances may test some viewers, but they won't be a deal-breaker for everyone, and Khan's actors do a lot of good work to try to make the details ring true.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2021

After Love has the agony of a domestic tragedy and the tension of a Hitchcock thriller.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 3, 2021

A measured, powerful, thoughtful work alive to the subtleties and sensitivities of cultural appropriation and rifts, driven by a thoughtful, mesmerising, ego-less performance by Joanna Scanlan.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 2, 2021

The images of Mary and the white cliffs of Dover will stay with you long after the credits have rolled.

| Oct 19, 2020

Anchored by a phenomenal performance by Scanlan, this is an accomplished debut from writer and director Aleem Khan which employs elegant mirrored scenes and repetition to explore the threads that link the two women.

| Oct 19, 2020