Let's just flatly say: Kogonada is a genius.

| Dec 27, 2022

... A mature, melancholic meditation on the odd transitional phase that humanity faces today — not quite fully digital, not nearly human enough.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2022

I’m not convinced that the picture carries quite the philosophical weight that it thinks it does. Still, it’s an undeniably gorgeous place to lose yourself for a while.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2022

Colin Farrell’s central turn, a lovely, soulful study of melancholy, is one of his best performances to date. Cinematographer Benjamin Loeb’s pillow shots are appropriately contemplative.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2022

... The complexity of Asian-American relations is just one of the vast themes that this sweetly minor-key film brings down to human scale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2022

Farrell has delivered increasingly subdued performances. And he thrives here, in the role of an introspective man who runs a tea shop and who, I like to imagine, whispers all his secrets into a steaming mug.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2022

There are touches of Philip K Dick and even Charlie Kaufman, and this is also a pregnant meditation on grief, loss, memory and consciousness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2022

It's an emotional slow burn, feeling almost like a guided meditation. You need to be in the mood for it, but you might just love where it takes you...

| Jul 25, 2022

Compelling and intriguing, the film continually shifts into unanticipated directions. Farrell gives a particularly fine performance as the increasingly frustrated and thwarted Jake.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 22, 2022

Much too 'Instagram Stories: The Motion Picture' for my taste.

| Mar 24, 2022

The editing - which is also Koganada - offers wonderful elisions and punctuations that add compelling elements and draw you in without changing the gentleness of this film.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 13, 2022

[Director Kogonada] finds a tonal balance that's really difficult between being profound about the nature of existence, but also light and wispy and wistful at the same time.

| Mar 12, 2022

Whether Kogonada intended it or not, After Yang plays like a profound film for the glass-half-full atheist, suggesting not only the preciousness and importance of life, but the ways in which it continues after our systems crash.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 10, 2022

[Farrell] treads the waters of wistfulness, compassion and devotion with an elegant ease.

| Mar 10, 2022

“After Yang” shows how easily the taste for beauty can be tainted, subverted, distorted, and abused by the powers that be.

| Mar 8, 2022

Director Kogonada’s sophomore film explores a subtly futuristic world where artificial intelligence is commonplace.

| Mar 8, 2022

At the end, you may feel you’ve just seen a movie that somehow holds elusive answers to some of the bigger questions in life, even though nothing is spelled out too broadly.

| Mar 5, 2022

Thoughtful and nicely unsettling, sci-fi film finds meaning in the memories of an automated companion.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 5, 2022

Farrell will break your heart...the talented Irishman plays a forlorn father investigating his family’s malfunctioning robot helper in Kogonada’s latest.

| Mar 5, 2022

Check the cynicism for a second, however, and you start to realize that the main question here is not, “What does it mean to be human?” or “Do androids dream of electronic afterlives?” but “Why, exactly, am I crying so hard?”

| Mar 4, 2022