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Movie ID: 1465
RT slug: after_yang
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/after_yang
Release year: 2022
Runtime: 101 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: 2022-03-04
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2022-03-04
Tomatometer final: 89%
Audience score final: 67%
Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi
Directors: Kogonada
Writers: Kogonada
Producers: Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey, Theresa Park
MPAA rating: PG
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-10-13 20:02:31
Updated: 2026-10-13 20:02:31
When his young daughter's beloved companion -- an android named Yang -- malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife (Jodie Turner-Smith) and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
Although its reach occasionally exceeds its grasp, After Yang yields rich rewards for those willing to settle into its low-key wavelength.
Canonical reviews: 240
Canonical fresh: 213
Canonical rotten: 27
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 240 (213/27), 89% (88.750% raw)
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-10-12 15:22:45
Snapshot Tomatometer: 89%
Snapshot review count: 240
Snapshot fresh count: 213
Snapshot rotten count: 27
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| 2 | Jodie Turner-Smith | Kyra |
| 3 | Justin H. Min | Yang |
| 4 | Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja | Mika |
| 5 | Haley Lu Richardson | Ada |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 287827 | Christos Tsiolkas | The Saturday Paper | Rotten | — | 2026-08-21T06:09:12.000Z | 2026-08-21 06:09:12 | There’s a sentimentality that runs throughout After Yang, a deliberate abjuring of the messiness of desire and sexuality. Kogonada wants to universalise the experiences of the his characters but in doing so infantilises them. |
| 287828 | Jessica Kiang | Sight & Sound | Fresh | — | 2026-05-14T00:44:59.000Z | 2026-05-14 00:44:59 | Kogonada’s second feature extracts an emotional core from artificial intelligence when a family’s robot child ‘dies’, but the film dodges the reckoning with big questions that its premise promises. |
| 287829 | Rose Ho | The Asian Cut | Fresh | — | 2025-08-02T20:40:29.000Z | 2025-08-02 20:40:29 | Meditatively paced with achingly beautiful visuals |
| 287830 | Michael Cook | Geek Vibes Nation | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2025-07-17T21:25:22.000Z | 2025-07-17 21:25:22 | It’s deeply emotional, obsessed with exploring the intricacies of humanity. It’s soft and loving and heartfelt. The performances are beautiful and full of vulnerability and nuance. And the whole movie is just one big love letter to the power of living. |
| 287831 | Joseph Tomastik | Loud and Clear Reviews | Fresh | 4/5 | 2024-10-04T18:30:25.000Z | 2024-10-04 18:30:25 | Kogonada has taken a very unconventional, bold approach to his examination of holding on to fading humanity. |
| 287832 | Hector A. Gonzalez | The Movie Buff | Fresh | B+ | 2024-09-08T18:35:47.000Z | 2024-09-08 18:35:47 | After Yang is a beautiful story about identity, existence, blood relations, and the hard questions in life like what it means to be human. |
| 287833 | Yasser Medina | Cinefilia | Rotten | 6/10 | 2024-07-14T08:06:08.000Z | 2024-07-14 08:06:08 | It has a minimalist appearance that, with tight aesthetics, Kogonada manages from the surface to interrogate adoption, loss and artificial intelligence from the family nucleus, but it remains in an epicenter of routine situations. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 287834 | Zach Youngs | InSession Film | Fresh | — | 2024-07-03T16:53:02.000Z | 2024-07-03 16:53:02 | There's something shockingly beautiful in Kogonada's film. After Yang is a visual feast. While it has a narrative pull, it is so much more about the feelings the images invoke about being human. |
| 287835 | Sarah Vincent | Sarah G Vincent Views | Rotten | — | 2024-06-09T21:24:40.000Z | 2024-06-09 21:24:40 | If a family buys an alleged member with the belief that this purchase exists only to serve them, then is that member enslaved? The film echoes Antebellum slaveholder sentiments of treating the enslaved as family |
| 287836 | Zach Pope | Zach Pope Reviews | Fresh | — | 2023-07-25T22:31:50.000Z | 2023-07-25 22:31:50 | After Yang is a poetic & profound look at what it means to be human. The connections we share with one another, the loss of ourselves in technology, & the reconnect that we long for at times. |
| 287837 | Manuel São Bento | FILMHOUNDS Magazine | Fresh | B+ | 2023-07-23T21:29:25.000Z | 2023-07-23 21:29:25 | After Yang may have some pacing issues, but Kogonada's beautifully thoughtful storytelling and ASKA's unforgettable, tear-inducing score transform this piece into a contemplative, inspirational cinematic experience. |
| 287838 | Nuha Hassan | Off Colour | Fresh | — | 2023-07-21T14:14:52.000Z | 2023-07-21 14:14:52 | After Yang finds beauty in the most unexpected ways. It’s a gut-wrenching, soul-stirring story that explores the connections of lineage, family and identity. |
| 287839 | Amber Wilkinson | Eye for Film | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-03-17T12:23:28.000Z | 2023-03-17 12:23:28 | Kogonada is the directorial equivalent of a careful tea maker himself, he knows how to infuse his films with complex ideas without getting preachy or overtechnical about it. |
| 287840 | Kristian M. Lin | Fort Worth Weekly | Fresh | — | 2023-03-13T20:24:48.000Z | 2023-03-13 20:24:48 | It turns into an unexpectedly moving exploration of loss as the family cycles through the robot’s memory banks and finds bits of their lives in them. |
| 287841 | Daisy Leigh-Phippard | Screen Queens | Fresh | — | 2023-01-25T20:46:59.000Z | 2023-01-25 20:46:59 | As the credits roll, you do wonder if the film is philosophical to a fault. Columbus was just as wanderingly cerebral, but maybe because the most integral character departs us so soon, After Yang remains mystifying in a way the director’s debut avoided. |
| 287842 | Mitchell Beaupre | The Film Stage | Fresh | 8.5/10 | 2023-01-03T21:51:07.000Z | 2023-01-03 21:51:07 | We can never truly know another person. In some ways, we will never fully know ourselves or our relationship with the world. But the search for it, the mystery, the endless pursuit—that’s the beauty of life. |
| 287843 | Scott Phillips | Forbes | Fresh | — | 2022-12-29T00:01:55.000Z | 2022-12-29 00:01:55 | After Yang is visually gorgeous with some of the best production design of the year. Its near-future universe is rendered with subtle perfection by its director, Kogonada. |
| 287844 | Dolores Quintana | Dolores Quintana | Fresh | — | 2022-12-28T21:07:22.000Z | 2022-12-28 21:07:22 | AFTER YANG is a marvel of warmth and humanity in a tale about an android and his family who are bereft in his absence. How his death teaches them how to love each other again and find the courage to let go. |
| 287845 | Caryn James | BBC.com | Fresh | — | 2022-12-27T19:36:43.000Z | 2022-12-27 19:36:43 | Let's just flatly say: Kogonada is a genius. |
| 287846 | Jared Mobarak | Hey, Have You Seen ...? | Fresh | 9/10 | 2022-12-16T15:20:09.000Z | 2022-12-16 15:20:09 | Farrell is quite wonderful in a role that demands an introspective acknowledgement of these questions and a decision for how to move forward. It's an evolution. A metamorphosis. |
| 287847 | Eric Marchen | Rogers TV | Fresh | A | 2022-12-10T09:01:43.000Z | 2022-12-10 09:01:43 | A futuristic portrait of familial loss, After Yang, lingers in the absence of a son left with only the memories to mourn. |
| 287848 | Antonio R. Jiménez | Espinof | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-12-05T19:07:43.000Z | 2022-12-05 19:07:43 | [The film] assumes that the nature of existence is inscrutable and through its imagery and sound finds the unreal to represent what's real... [Full review in Spanish] |
| 287849 | Maria Lattila | WhyNow (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-11-19T18:10:56.000Z | 2022-11-19 18:10:56 | It’s so restrained, it almost loses its audience, but as a whole, it’s a magical piece of cinema. |
| 287850 | Dallas King | Flick Feast | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-11-13T08:12:12.000Z | 2022-11-13 08:12:12 | [Kogonada] along with cinematographer Benjamin Loeb find the beauty in the mundane... [this is] science fiction at its most meditative. |
| 287851 | M.N. Miller | Ready Steady Cut | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-11-05T23:58:28.000Z | 2022-11-05 23:58:28 | A thoughtful, exquisite view of mindfulness and rumination. |
| 287852 | Hilary A White | Sunday Independent (Ireland) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-28T23:50:37.000Z | 2022-09-28 23:50:37 | The warm atmospherics and clean interiors -- cinematographer Benjamin Loeb deserves praise -- provide a meditative waft to a film that wears its philosophical substance lightly. |
| 287853 | Rich Cline | Shadows on the Wall | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-28T22:13:20.000Z | 2022-09-28 22:13:20 | With an unusually meditative tone, this drama is set in the future but rooted in timeless human emotions. |
| 287854 | Kevin Maher | The Times (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-26T22:55:52.000Z | 2022-09-26 22:55:52 | ... A mature, melancholic meditation on the odd transitional phase that humanity faces today — not quite fully digital, not nearly human enough. |
| 287855 | Nicola Austin | We Have a Hulk | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-25T18:13:13.000Z | 2022-09-25 18:13:13 | A beautiful, thought provoking and gently paced mediation on life, love and our relationship with artificial intelligence. |
| 287856 | Wendy Ide | Observer (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-09-25T11:58:46.000Z | 2022-09-25 11:58:46 | I’m not convinced that the picture carries quite the philosophical weight that it thinks it does. Still, it’s an undeniably gorgeous place to lose yourself for a while. |
| 287857 | Andy Lea | Daily Express (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-23T12:45:01.000Z | 2022-09-23 12:45:01 | An excellent Colin Farrell and the steady hand of Korean-American director Kogonada power this unusually soulful sci-fi about the death of a family's much-loved android. |
| 287858 | Tara Brady | Irish Times | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-09-23T11:07:11.000Z | 2022-09-23 11:07:11 | Colin Farrell’s central turn, a lovely, soulful study of melancholy, is one of his best performances to date. Cinematographer Benjamin Loeb’s pillow shots are appropriately contemplative. |
| 287859 | Danny Leigh | Financial Times | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-22T20:45:12.000Z | 2022-09-22 20:45:12 | ... The complexity of Asian-American relations is just one of the vast themes that this sweetly minor-key film brings down to human scale. |
| 287860 | Clarisse Loughrey | Independent (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-22T20:03:11.000Z | 2022-09-22 20:03:11 | Farrell has delivered increasingly subdued performances. And he thrives here, in the role of an introspective man who runs a tea shop and who, I like to imagine, whispers all his secrets into a steaming mug. |
| 287861 | Peter Bradshaw | Guardian | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-21T10:29:51.000Z | 2022-09-21 10:29:51 | There are touches of Philip K Dick and even Charlie Kaufman, and this is also a pregnant meditation on grief, loss, memory and consciousness. |
| 287862 | Xuanlin Tham | The Skinny | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-20T18:13:27.000Z | 2022-09-20 18:13:27 | After Yang acutely captures the way grief and loss swell into temporal collapse – rendering the past, present and future as one, inextricable timeline. |
| 287863 | Laura Potier | Starburst | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-09-20T13:09:12.000Z | 2022-09-20 13:09:12 | Muted, melancholic, and oh-so-aesthetic, Kogonada's sophomore feature explores hefty themes of humanity, identity, belonging, and more with a surprisingly delicate touch – all building to a climax that's as understated as it is affecting. |
| 287864 | Amelia Harvey | Frame Rated | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-01T18:06:58.000Z | 2022-09-01 18:06:58 | If you don’t pay attention, you may miss the beauty of After Yang. It’s not a flashy film and outside of the main concept, little happens, but it poses big questions. |
| 287865 | Katherine McLaughlin | SciFiNow | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-08-25T22:00:11.000Z | 2022-08-25 22:00:11 | It’s all profoundly moving. |
| 287866 | Ruth Maramis | FlixChatter Film Blog | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-08-24T21:12:09.000Z | 2022-08-24 21:12:09 | This underrated sci-fi drama strikes a chord with me. A brilliant and deeply moving film about loss and grief that will linger long after I watched it. |
| 287867 | Jim Ross | TAKE ONE Magazine | Fresh | — | 2022-08-16T18:00:58.000Z | 2022-08-16 18:00:58 | ...many thought-provoking strands on family privacy, tech dependence, and what makes something belong to a family unit. Still, its imagination & sincerity when dealing with memory & what it means to have lived make it a slow-motion emotional gut punch. |
| 287868 | Cris Kennedy | The Canberra Times (Australia) | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-08-09T19:23:23.000Z | 2022-08-09 19:23:23 | The young Tjandrawidjada sings her android best friend's favourite melody throughout the film, and her voice is startling. |
| 287869 | Marisa Carpico | The Pop Break | Fresh | — | 2022-08-05T15:54:24.000Z | 2022-08-05 15:54:24 | ...After Yang manages to explore major ideas like loss and memory in a way that feels profound without also feeling self-important. |
| 287870 | Taylor Antrim | Vogue | Fresh | — | 2022-07-27T21:53:42.000Z | 2022-07-27 21:53:42 | Slow but emotionally generous and suffused by warmth. |
| 287871 | Sandi Rankaduwa | BuzzFeed News | Fresh | — | 2022-07-25T18:47:03.000Z | 2022-07-25 18:47:03 | It's an emotional slow burn, feeling almost like a guided meditation. You need to be in the mood for it, but you might just love where it takes you... |
| 287872 | Zoë Rose Bryant | Next Best Picture | Fresh | 7/10 | 2022-07-14T20:59:35.000Z | 2022-07-14 20:59:35 | While After Yang might lose the interest of some with its pondering, meditative pace, its meaningful messages make their way into all of our minds all the same, causing us to ponder what those we love most leave behind when they leave this world. |
| 287873 | Sarah Ward | Concrete Playground | Fresh | — | 2022-06-24T23:40:48.000Z | 2022-06-24 23:40:48 | Only an exceptional movie can equally think and feel so vastly, and pose unresolvable queries while also offering such a soothing embrace. |
| 287874 | Nathaniel Rogers | The Film Experience | Fresh | A- | 2022-06-14T18:26:20.000Z | 2022-06-14 18:26:20 | I found this contemplative sci-fi drama exploring racial identity, technological dependence, the nature of family, and both collective and individual memory just transfixing. |
| 287875 | Travis Johnson | Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) | Fresh | — | 2022-06-07T04:31:57.000Z | 2022-06-07 04:31:57 | Painterly and meditative, After Yang offers us a vision of a uniquely comfortable consumer dystopia. |
| 287876 | Thomas Stoneham-Judge | ForReel Movie News And Reviews | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-05-12T17:56:02.000Z | 2022-05-12 17:56:02 | It’s mellow in tone and adept at connecting with audiences on an emotional level. |
| 287877 | Brett McCracken | The Gospel Coalition | Fresh | — | 2022-05-06T15:51:58.000Z | 2022-05-06 15:51:58 | The film asks more questions than it answers, which is the type of science-fiction drama I like. |
| 287878 | Eileen G'Sell | Hyperallergic | Fresh | — | 2022-05-05T15:38:19.000Z | 2022-05-05 15:38:19 | After Yang merges director Kogonada’s fastidious attention to form with a rare empathy for the insecurity of the human condition, especially within the nuclear unit. |
| 287879 | Raúl Álvarez | El antepenúltimo mohicano | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-05-03T14:46:32.000Z | 2022-05-03 14:46:32 | At each time its image, and at each image its memory. After Yang flows commendably when the physical story gives space to the sensory story. Full Review in Spanish |
| 287880 | Jim Schembri | jimschembri.com | Rotten | 1/5 | 2022-05-02T06:13:38.000Z | 2022-05-02 06:13:38 | Regrettably, the only thing deep about After Yang is the sleep it's likely to lull you into. |
| 287881 | James Croot | The Post NZ | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-04-27T19:56:39.000Z | 2022-04-27 19:56:39 | The cast and Kogonada ensure sentimental schmaltz never holds sway here, the performances and story grounded in emotional reality and the elegiac atmosphere enhanced greatly by a terrific score that includes a theme composed by... Ryuichi Sakamoto. |
| 287882 | Matthew Toomey | ABC Radio Brisbane | Fresh | B+ | 2022-04-25T22:17:40.000Z | 2022-04-25 22:17:40 | Movies about robots and artificial intelligence are not new but After Yang takes interesting ideas and weaves them together into something emotional and thought-provoking. |
| 287883 | David Stratton | The Australian | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-04-22T23:21:06.000Z | 2022-04-22 23:21:06 | Compelling and intriguing, the film continually shifts into unanticipated directions. Farrell gives a particularly fine performance as the increasingly frustrated and thwarted Jake. |
| 287884 | Erik Childress | Movie Madness Podcast | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-04-12T19:56:46.000Z | 2022-04-12 19:56:46 | Whatever needs to be done to get Kogonada the resources to continue making movies, it is an endeavor every film lover and student of human emotional connection should sprint towards. |
| 287885 | CJ Sheu | The News Lens International | Fresh | — | 2022-03-29T11:33:34.000Z | 2022-03-29 11:33:34 | [T]he project surprised many when first announced: It’s a sci-fi. But a true master sees truth behind many guises. |
| 287886 | Rachel Ho | Exclaim! | Fresh | 9/10 | 2022-03-25T22:27:13.000Z | 2022-03-25 22:27:13 | After Yang shows how artistic, beautiful and grounded science fiction can be. |
| 287887 | Andrew Kendall | Stabroek News | Rotten | — | 2022-03-25T01:50:39.000Z | 2022-03-25 01:50:39 | The elegiac and melancholic tone is fairly well measured against Benjamin Loebs delicate photography, but very little of the existential concerns here feel weighty enough to linger after the credits roll. |
| 287888 | Keith Uhlich | (All (Parentheses)) (Substack) | Rotten | — | 2022-03-24T21:35:59.000Z | 2022-03-24 21:35:59 | Much too 'Instagram Stories: The Motion Picture' for my taste. |
| 287889 | Eileen Jones | The Jacobin | Fresh | — | 2022-03-24T01:22:53.000Z | 2022-03-24 01:22:53 | The people in the somber new sci-fi film After Yang are god-awful. If this movie represents our near future, that Earth-destroying asteroid can’t obliterate us fast enough. |
| 287890 | Jim Laczkowski | Director's Club | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-03-20T18:20:40.000Z | 2022-03-20 18:20:40 | One of the year's best films so far that has a lot to say about identity and loss and what it means to truly be human. Kogonada has a lot of warmth and a real calm sense of confidence behind his storytelling craft that it's hard not to be moved. |
| 287891 | Zebib K.A. | Spectrum Culture | Fresh | — | 2022-03-20T17:37:58.000Z | 2022-03-20 17:37:58 | This lush indie drama explores the future impact of a techno-sapien companion on one family unit uncovering many layers of symbolism, though it sometimes keeps the viewer at too far a distance. |
| 287892 | Rene Sanchez | Cine Sin Fronteras | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2022-03-20T17:08:24.000Z | 2022-03-20 17:08:24 | A meditative study on human nature, the ephemerality of life, and the ways in how each individual processes grief. Full Review in Spanish |
| 287893 | David Bax | Battleship Pretension | Fresh | — | 2022-03-19T00:16:00.000Z | 2022-03-19 00:16:00 | ...for all his futuristic mise-en-scène, the directors outlook remains poignantly human, psychological but not overly cerebral. |
| 287894 | Karen M. Peterson | We Live Entertainment | Fresh | 9/10 | 2022-03-18T18:10:12.000Z | 2022-03-18 18:10:12 | Justin H. Min breathes depth and complexity into Yang and, by extension, into the film itself. |
| 287895 | Filipe Freitas | Always Good Movies | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2022-03-18T01:36:54.000Z | 2022-03-18 01:36:54 | A somnambulistic intersection of elements and moods from Spike Jonzes Her, Alex Garlands Ex-Machina and Maria Schrader's Im Your Man. |
| 287896 | Tim Brayton | Alternate Ending | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-03-18T00:40:45.000Z | 2022-03-18 00:40:45 | Every element of the image and sound has been carefully positioned to work harmoniously towards the expression of a tightly-controlled set of emotions. |
| 287897 | Natalia Keogan | Paste Magazine | Fresh | 8/10 | 2022-03-15T20:31:43.000Z | 2022-03-15 20:31:43 | After Yang is always emotionally intelligent and artfully prescient, showcasing Kogonada’s penchant for sparse storytelling. |
| 287898 | Chris Knight | National Post | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-03-14T21:59:12.000Z | 2022-03-14 21:59:12 | Rare for science-fiction, it hits a sweet spot between showing future tech and just letting it happen without detailed explanation. |
| 287899 | Adam Kempenaar | Filmspotting | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-03-13T20:55:24.000Z | 2022-03-13 20:55:24 | The editing - which is also Koganada - offers wonderful elisions and punctuations that add compelling elements and draw you in without changing the gentleness of this film. |
| 287900 | Edwin Arnaudin | Asheville Movies | Fresh | A | 2022-03-12T20:42:12.000Z | 2022-03-12 20:42:12 | Kogonada is a genius. |
| 287901 | Christy Lemire | FilmWeek (LAist) | Fresh | — | 2022-03-12T00:30:51.000Z | 2022-03-12 00:30:51 | [Director Kogonada] finds a tonal balance that's really difficult between being profound about the nature of existence, but also light and wispy and wistful at the same time. |
| 287902 | Andy Klein | FilmWeek (LAist) | Fresh | — | 2022-03-12T00:29:16.000Z | 2022-03-12 00:29:16 | A very moving family film that deals with "what is existence?" |
| 287903 | Bennett Campbell Ferguson | Willamette Week | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-03-11T17:56:02.000Z | 2022-03-11 17:56:02 | I once heard a film critic say all great movies are about being a human being who loves other human beings. That holds true in After Yang, but the film is also about being a being who loves other beings, human or not. |
| 287904 | Sonny Bunch | The Bulwark | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-03-11T14:30:55.000Z | 2022-03-11 14:30:55 | A quick gut-punch of a movie, one that messes with the head and the heart in equal measure. |
| 287905 | Anne Brodie | What She Said | Fresh | — | 2022-03-11T12:52:25.000Z | 2022-03-11 12:52:25 | An artistic adventure bringing together diverse cultural ideas to the central truths of being human. |
| 287906 | Kyle Smith | National Review | Fresh | — | 2022-03-10T18:08:21.000Z | 2022-03-10 18:08:21 | A kind of existential sci-fi detective story about love, death, and memory, After Yang is a beautiful and heartbreaking film that promises great things to come from its secretive but immensely talented director. |
| 287907 | Scott Tobias | The Reveal | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-03-10T17:56:14.000Z | 2022-03-10 17:56:14 | Whether Kogonada intended it or not, After Yang plays like a profound film for the glass-half-full atheist, suggesting not only the preciousness and importance of life, but the ways in which it continues after our systems crash. |
| 287908 | Fletcher Powell | KMUW - Wichita Public Radio | Fresh | — | 2022-03-10T15:50:46.000Z | 2022-03-10 15:50:46 | It's the patience Kogonada has that's so valuable. |
| 287909 | Barry Hertz | Globe and Mail | Fresh | — | 2022-03-10T14:03:53.000Z | 2022-03-10 14:03:53 | [Farrell] treads the waters of wistfulness, compassion and devotion with an elegant ease. |
| 287910 | Richard Crouse | Richard Crouse | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-03-10T14:03:17.000Z | 2022-03-10 14:03:17 | Ultimately, the film Koganada has made is a poignant family drama with some sci fi elements. But just because After Yang is more interesting than exciting doesnt mean it isnt effective and memorable. |
| 287911 | Leo Brady | AMovieGuy.com | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-03-10T05:24:07.000Z | 2022-03-10 05:24:07 | In many ways, its a companion piece with a movie such as Blade Runner, where the motives and life of the robot is what we connect with. |
| 287912 | Karen Gordon | Original Cin | Fresh | B | 2022-03-09T23:41:41.000Z | 2022-03-09 23:41:41 | Colin Farrell shines in this lovely quiet movie about love, memory and self-discovery. |
| 287913 | Weiting Liu | Mediaversity Reviews | Fresh | B+ | 2022-03-09T21:09:33.000Z | 2022-03-09 21:09:33 | Kogonadas After Yang leaves us with a viscerally Asian American experience that few other filmmakers could put on screen. |
| 287914 | Chris Barsanti | PopMatters | Fresh | 6/10 | 2022-03-08T16:49:11.000Z | 2022-03-08 16:49:11 | few sharp emotions cut through the tranquil lull of Koganadas murmuring dialogue and Benjamin Loebs lusciously grained Instamatic cinematography. |
| 287915 | Richard Brody | The New Yorker | Fresh | — | 2022-03-08T11:03:00.000Z | 2022-03-08 11:03:00 | “After Yang” shows how easily the taste for beauty can be tainted, subverted, distorted, and abused by the powers that be. |
| 287916 | Maxwell Rabb | Chicago Reader | Fresh | — | 2022-03-08T00:26:43.000Z | 2022-03-08 00:26:43 | Director Kogonada’s sophomore film explores a subtly futuristic world where artificial intelligence is commonplace. |
| 287917 | Josie Meléndez | Full Circle Cinema | Fresh | 7.5/10 | 2022-03-07T22:15:39.000Z | 2022-03-07 22:15:39 | A part of this film stays with you, as though nestled in a newfound home within your heart. There is truly a high possibility that nobody understands people quite as much as Kogonada. |
| 287918 | Don Kaye | Den of Geek | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-03-07T18:55:59.000Z | 2022-03-07 18:55:59 | After Yang is both unsatisfying and cathartic at the same time, providing a poignant payoff to a story that leaves the viewer reaching out for more understanding. |
| 287919 | Sandie Angulo Chen | Common Sense Media | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-03-07T17:09:47.000Z | 2022-03-07 17:09:47 | Director Kogonada creates a quiet, beautifully shot, thoughtfully acted film that explores humanity, nature, and relationships. |
| 287920 | Ryan Silberstein | MovieJawn | Fresh | — | 2022-03-07T14:48:35.000Z | 2022-03-07 14:48:35 | The way Kogonada takes us through After Yang is consistently compelling; he folds familiar emotions and experiences into a novel setting. |
| 287921 | Kate Sánchez | But Why Tho? | Fresh | 8.5/10 | 2022-03-06T17:20:00.000Z | 2022-03-06 17:20:00 | The beauty of After Yang is that it highlights the power of science fiction as a genre. Its not in big set pieces or concepts, but rather in imagining how humans connect across technology... |
| 287922 | Alistair Ryder | Looper.com | Fresh | — | 2022-03-06T15:01:32.000Z | 2022-03-06 15:01:32 | The central novelty of After Yang is that it's a film set in a world where artificial intelligence in the form of advanced humanoid robots is commonplace, yet achieves profundity through the way it makes us contemplate the realities of living without it. |
| 287923 | Allen Almachar | The MacGuffin | Fresh | A | 2022-03-06T07:37:43.000Z | 2022-03-06 07:37:43 | Even long after seeing it, it has remained fixed in my mind like a treasured memory not soon to be forgotten. |
| 287924 | Dana Han-Klein | We're Watching What?! | Fresh | 3.9/5 | 2022-03-06T03:31:20.000Z | 2022-03-06 03:31:20 | Some films can get away with posing questions and NOT providing answers... After Yang is definitely one of those films. It's a sensitive and thoughtful examination on what it means to be alive, and what it means to be Asian. |
| 287925 | Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-03-05T20:14:39.000Z | 2022-03-05 20:14:39 | After Yang gives us much to consider, even though it feels more ponderous and nebulous than one might prefer. |
| 287926 | Stephanie Zacharek | TIME Magazine | Fresh | — | 2022-03-05T14:33:33.000Z | 2022-03-05 14:33:33 | At the end, you may feel you’ve just seen a movie that somehow holds elusive answers to some of the bigger questions in life, even though nothing is spelled out too broadly. |
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