At its best this film is brave, cool and brimful of ideas, and if they're barely contained within the slightly flimsy story, that's down to Campos' decision to give himself the safety net of a well-worn genre.

| Jul 6, 2018

Antonio Campos' Afterschool plays like the creepy younger brother of Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 23, 2012

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The film examines such relevant issues as violence in school, voyeurism, and abuse.

| Original Score: B | Jun 9, 2011

When not downright creepy, it's quietly damning of an administration willing to point all the wrong fingers and play up all the wrong angles before brushing the matter aside.

| Dec 17, 2009

This is a little movie well worth checking out. The performances are very natural, and the themes are enticingly provocative.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 4, 2009

It's both a supremely controlled exercise in form and tone and an intriguing exploration of the ways new technology intersects with age-old questions of dominance, control and individuality, particularly in the school setting.

| Oct 9, 2009

Anthony Campos (who was 24 when he made this jolting pic) captures the numbing psychic scramble that just might cause the YouTube generation to go morally haywire. Or become filmmakers.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 7, 2009

Whatever happened to the analog days when kids found contentment by cramming phone booths, sitting on flagpoles or simply going steady?

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 6, 2009

Antonio Campos's character study of a prep school social misfit named Robert (Ezra Miller) is an intimate psychological journey into a coded juvenile mindset.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 3, 2009

Perhaps it is the intent of Afterschool, to create such a distancing effect the viewer is forced to observe, perhaps even critique these young people's experience. If this is the case, Afterschool is one long period of detention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2009

Campos has developed a style of his own, one that owes as much to video installations as it does to cinematic narrative.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 2, 2009

Though thin on story, the film shows poise and vision, using bleak cinema-realite techniques with chilling effect. Campos promises to be heard from again.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 2, 2009

Those with the patience to wait out Mr. Campos's overindulgences will definitely leave Afterschool unnerved, which is probably exactly what he had in mind.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 2, 2009

The passing of time and the evolution of technology may give it an expiration date, but more likely, Campos' film stands to be an essential document of what it was like to be a young person in the late '00s.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 1, 2009

Deserves credit for managing to make prep school seem like the most hellish place on the planet, but is at some points hard to watch for all the wrong reasons.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 30, 2009

Afterschool, the almost frighteningly accomplished first feature made by Antonio Campos when he was 24, is high school as horror show.

| Sep 29, 2009

An intelligent, often gripping, and intriguingly autobiographical drama of paranoia.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2009

At heart it's another unpleasant existential crisis for another unpleasant schoolboy in another unpleasant American prep school.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2009

It's an intriguing scenario, but what makes the film special (if at times slightly trying) is that it's all artfully shot in an apparently artless manner.

| Aug 24, 2009