The shocks, and the repressed wickedness, as in all well-done horror films, build slowly, then reach a crescendo that is hard to bear and harder to shake off.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 10, 2014

A sense of dread suffuses this film, which offers yet another slice of World War II history.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 31, 2014

There is something especially unsettling about groupthink, particularly when it comes to evil.

| Mar 14, 2014

Director Wladyslaw Pasikowski has made the mistake of going about his business as if he were fashioning a horror film.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 15, 2013

Aftermath is a bombshell disguised as a thriller.

| Nov 14, 2013

The affecting, well-conceived story explores collectively repressed Holocaust guilt.

| Nov 1, 2013

Writer-director Wladyslaw Pasikowski has structured "Aftermath" like a mystery; revealing itself one layer at a time

| Nov 1, 2013

The more the action hews to a Hammer horror template, the less congruent it feels with historical revelation.

| Nov 1, 2013

"Aftermath" is toothless, and that's inexcusable for a civics lesson that's supposed to jolt us out of complacency.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 1, 2013

Delivers its Holocaust-related story with the clunking force of a blunt instrument slammed into the skull.

| Oct 31, 2013

A highly unsettling look at lingering prejudice and collective guilt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2013

Between its blunt dialogue and even blunter imagery,...it's noble intentions are trumped by its ungainly execution.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 30, 2013

With its slow-burn pacing and horrifying reveals, Aftermath remains a deeply compelling puzzle.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2013

Aftermath is not merely a grandiose apology for Holocaust-era complicity. It taps a richer vein with its examination of why such an apology is ultimately so empty, even if it takes profound bravery to apologize.

| Oct 29, 2013

The film isn't so much about the moral atrophy of people who refuse to come to terms with their past as it is about cosmic karma passed from fathers to sons like an ancient curse.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 28, 2013

What seems clearly intended as homage comes out as pastiche.

| Oct 28, 2013

Predicated on the unraveling of the social fabric, "Aftermath" is a thriller that's meant to stun.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 25, 2013