The editing and soundtrack that accompany the powerful images contribute to making Post Mortem a powerful and moving cinematographic work. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 14, 2023

A powerful portrayal of a story that takes place at the peak of Pinochet's dictatorship. Ends with a profoundly memorable closing shot.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2022

Engrossing, intricate, and intelligent, Post Mortem is an effectively chilling Chilean nightmare.

| Jul 9, 2019

Building in intensity, this is a movie that's both elusive and visceral in its metaphors. The perverse anti-virtuosity of the filmmaking heightens the sense of pervasive shabbiness and ineptitude. It's a new and original vision of political terror.

| Feb 25, 2019

Despite how uncomfortable this film can potentially make its audience, it achieves that which all arthouse films of a strong calibre aim for - it makes you think.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2018

Post Mortem is only Larraín's second feature, but he has already proven a distinct style-an unmistakable deadpan-and an interest in political and personal utopias.

| Apr 12, 2018

Mesmerizing, somehow otherworldly...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 24, 2012

Mario's life spirals out of control in unexpected ways.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 13, 2012

Post Mortem is - intentionally - not an engaging movie.

| Apr 12, 2012

Larrain crafts Post Mortem as a slow, quiet character study, narrowing in on Castro in his home and office while the world outside descends into madness.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 12, 2012

Post Mortem starts out at a crawl, but it gathers emotional momentum as it pushes forward.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Apr 11, 2012

The violence in Chile in 1973 when the government of Salvador Allende was overthrown seen through the eyes of a mortuary assistant.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 11, 2012

The first half's pretentiously doom-laden vibe suggests the film is slowly tunneling up its own rigor-mortised rectum. Patience, however, will be rewarded.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2012

[A] grim, intense, mordantly comic little film...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2012

Often drolly, coolly morbid, Post Mortem also operates just as effectively in a more nakedly direct register.

| Apr 10, 2012

A chilling exploration of the 1973 Pinochet coup soaked in metaphor but rooted in dreadful fact.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 10, 2012

Pablo Larraín keeps the army's brutality off screen to amplify a sense of oppressive malevolence.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 8, 2012

the film develops into a kind of horror, made all the more horrifying by your inability to imagine any alternative, preferable ending

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2011

It's by no means an easy watch, but it's a rewarding and disturbing one.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2011

An enigmatic but utterly distinctive and troubling film.

| Sep 13, 2011