If you take away The Aftermath’s post-war Reconstruction of Germany’s setting, what you have is a lonely housewife having an affair with a pool boy, and a lonely couple in desperate need of a premium cable subscription.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2022

It does not bode well for a story of a tumultuous affair if the only performance with conviction, in a love triangle, is given by the betrayed husband.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2021

The Aftermath is far from a great film, so deeply mired in genre conventions that playing a period piece drinking game while watching would have you in an ambulance within the first half-hour. But it's much too fun to get angry about.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 8, 2021

An interesting canvas on which to paint this story but unfortunately the love story feels torn from the pages of a not-so-steamy Harlequin Romance.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 4, 2021

The issues with the plot and characterization can somewhat be overlooked due to the solid acting work.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 1, 2021

The film ... is stretched too thin by its many sensibilities, thereby doing none of them very well. It's a period piece trapped in a love triangle with a last minute makeover as a war thriller.

| Jan 29, 2021

This proves to be a probing look at the impact of the choices we make with a conclusion that goes against the grain.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Nov 18, 2020

Directed by James Kent (Testament of Youth), it's an unabashed melodrama about the fractured loyalties and illogical tendencies of broken people. And that's why we loved it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 16, 2020

There's no denying that's a sweeping, handsome movie, but its heart is almost entirely empty.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2020

The intentions are clear, but they're too stilted to rise above unintentional parody.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 27, 2020

There are no bad performances in The Aftermath; the film's biggest issues exist in its contrived and familiar screenplay.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 21, 2020

[A] murky, boring movie that doesn't earn the loose moral lens through which it has chosen to frame the story.

| Mar 18, 2020

Knightley's character is - hello! - more sympathetic and sensual than in the novel, while Clarke's is more one-dimensional, to the point of caricature.

| Feb 21, 2020

[It] tightly grips viewers to a bitter (maybe sweet) denouement with a final frames resolution that, upon reflection, strikes as entirely appropriate.

| Feb 11, 2020

[T]his film focuses on a parent who's lost a child and their attempt to overcome the trauma and rejoin society as a functioning human being. That may not be all that sexy, but it makes for a very moving two hours at the Cineplex.

| Oct 21, 2019

What happens rarely feels deeply engaged, instead adhering to what expectation demands from a story where two beautiful actors begin as adversaries and become romantically intertwined.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2019

It does not achieve the emotional resonance that it's looking for, but Keira Knightly does wear some great dresses.

| Sep 23, 2019

Unfortunately, the script is lackluster at best which makes the film more of a morose and morbid reminder of one of the worst wars in world history.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 3, 2019

The acting in The Aftermath is strong across the board, but the script and editing both fail the performers.

| Jun 17, 2019

It's a shame that despite being based on a novel by Rhidian Brook, the material feels wasted on film. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | May 30, 2019