The direction is utterly bland. The film doesn't care about its own subject matter, or have anything to say about it.

| Aug 30, 2018

Aged 80 Clint Eastwood has made a film that is completely different in style, tone and structure from anything he has delivered before.

Full Review | May 15, 2018

Hereafter confronts a topic that could have descended into mawkish, mystical hokum, but not in Eastwood's no-nonsense, uncynical hands. He looks at death, and beyond, with clear, open, inquisitive eyes.

| Feb 6, 2018

In the end, an elevating and in many ways, exceptional experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 10, 2011

Now powering through his 80s, Clint Eastwood is doing the best, most thoughtful work of his career.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 9, 2011

It is sincere, well-meaning and, I'm sorry to say, quite transparent hokum.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 4, 2011

This is a consoling, romantic, inspirational movie in the mid-1940s manner of Portrait of Jennie and A Guy Named Joe.

| Jan 31, 2011

Life, death, the beyond... Ah, the beyond. Such a minefield for respectable filmmakers.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 29, 2011

Could it be that Peter Morgan's clout gave him the right to dredge up from his desk drawer some terrible old script? Maybe. Either way, it's one to forget for all concerned.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 27, 2011

Not his finest, but that's proof of how great this man is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2011

The start of each story promises so much. Yet the more often we ask "yes, and then?", the less often Morgan and Eastwood stump up a convincing answer.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 26, 2011

Slow, ponderous and as shallow as it thinks it is deep, lifted only by an impressive opening and fine work from Damon and Howard.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 26, 2011

The result may not plumb Shyamalanian awfulness, but if you did get to the afterlife you'd hope they weren't playing this movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 26, 2011

There I was, trapped in the dark, staring at a piercing light, and feeling the reaper's icy claw fingering my throat. Did I experience the afterlife? No. Just Clint Eastwood's new film about it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 24, 2011

It is a movie that opens with a bang and goes out with a somber, and for me quite poignant, whimper, the human story at its core one I couldn't tear my eyes away from.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 29, 2010

The film is a deeply compassionate, decidedly secular and somewhat plodding meditation on what matters now and what lies beyond this life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 22, 2010

Eastwood and Morgan skillfully and slowly unveil each character's struggles and then send them on their way to inevitable encounters with one another.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 22, 2010

The last 30 minutes of the film hint at what it might have been if someone had whipped that script into shape; the idea of exploring experiences of the afterlife was a great one, and Eastwood certainly has the vision to pull it off.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 22, 2010

Though I found Hereafter meandering and occasionally sentimental, I couldn't help but admire Clint Eastwood's ambition in taking on-headfirst-the greatest fact of human existence.

| Oct 22, 2010

I realize it's bad manners to be flip about a movie that emblazons its heart on its sleeve. But Hereafter, soggy with portentous uplift, invites that response.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 22, 2010