The balance that After Midnight strikes between a two-hander and a monster story warrants a Valentine's Day weekend look, and maybe even a scary conversation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2021

as Hank's different anniversary memories fall into place, building a mosaic-like picture of a long-term, loving relationship and its gradual breakdown,... the intrusive, ever-returning monster proves a multivalent symbol

| Jun 9, 2020

A jerry-rigged contraption of variably interesting, likable and skillful elements that only add up to one rather arbitrary goof.

| Feb 14, 2020

While it's ostensibly about a man fending off a horrific beast, the movie's much more concerned with long flashbacks to the couple's happy days together and with asking why this fella never made an honest woman of his girl.

| Feb 14, 2020

By the end of "After Midnight," he and the audience both may wonder whether the bogeyman and true love are equally mythical.

| Feb 13, 2020

The film derails slowly but surely.

| Feb 11, 2020

I'm not convinced all the parts of Gardner and co-director Christian Stella's vision come together, but I admire the willingness to make a rom-monster-com in a way we haven't really seen before.

| Nov 8, 2019

Even without a completely balanced relationship at the film's center, After Midnight offers an endearing mixture of humor and thirtysomething ennui.

| Oct 5, 2019