70
Intriguing but understated.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
60
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The sweep and energy of historical drama are notably missing from this grim, intense, mordantly comic little film.
60
With his sophomore feature, "Tony Manero" (2008), filmmaker Pablo Larraín gave us both a memorably maniacal main character and a black-joke metaphor about the free-floating psychosis wafting through Pinochet's Chile.
83
Post Mortem portrays the specter of dictatorship through the lens of one man's private hell.
70
Village Voice by Melissa Anderson
Often drolly, coolly morbid, Post Mortem also operates just as effectively in a more nakedly direct register.
63
Slant Magazine by Nick Schager
Pablo Larraín employs ultra-widescreen cinematography for constricting close-ups and inhospitably alienating compositions that generate a nasty chill, the director keeping the army's brutality off screen to amplify a sense of oppressive malevolence.
80
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
With its pale, washed-out colour palette, its eerily slow, almost somnambulist pacing and occasionally bizarre emotional demonstrations, Post Mortem is strangely gripping.
80
This is a chilling portrayal of a deeply unsympathetic protagonist.