Afterschool Critic Reviews
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Afterschool wears its many influences on its sleeve, but it’s very much a movie of the moment. 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.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
This is a sophisticated stylistic exercise too rarefied for wide audiences, but earmarked for critical kudos.Read the full review
Unsettles without illuminating, marred by narcotic pacing and a blank lead performance.Read the full review
In truth there isn’t much story here, or much insight either; the kind of alienated teenagers wandering through this film exist in movies far out of proportion to their number in real life.Read the full review
