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What keeps the film so fascinating is how even its protagonists are greatly flawed. While certainly upsetting, Aftermath takes a look at the dangers inherent in an abundance of truth.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Aftermath's avoidance of Holocaust-film tropes lets the picture address weighty historical and moral issues while fitting into the genre shoes of a small-town thriller.
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Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Aftermath is a bombshell disguised as a thriller.
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Pasikowski isn’t interested in actual characters or narrative nuance; rather, the prime concern here is censuring Polish anti-Semitism, which, no matter how righteous an aim, eventually comes at the expense of engaging storytelling.
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Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
Director Wladyslaw Pasikowski has made the mistake of going about his business as if he were fashioning a horror film.
50
The idea of framing Holocaust atrocities in contemporary genre terms, although intriguing, is not without its perils, and the secret, when revealed, looms too large to fit within the plot’s parameters, creating strange disconnects between form and content.
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The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Delivers its Holocaust-related story with the clunking force of a blunt instrument slammed into the skull.