Kogonada has taken a very unconventional, bold approach to his examination of holding on to fading humanity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2024

After Yang is a beautiful story about identity, existence, blood relations, and the hard questions in life like what it means to be human.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 8, 2024

It has a minimalist appearance that, with tight aesthetics, Kogonada manages from the surface to interrogate adoption, loss and artificial intelligence from the family nucleus, but it remains in an epicenter of routine situations. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 14, 2024

There's something shockingly beautiful in Kogonada's film. After Yang is a visual feast. While it has a narrative pull, it is so much more about the feelings the images invoke about being human.

| Jul 3, 2024

If a family buys an alleged member with the belief that this purchase exists only to serve them, then is that member enslaved? The film echoes Antebellum slaveholder sentiments of treating the enslaved as family

| Jun 9, 2024

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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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]

| 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.

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