
Having joined a recently created video club, a lowly prep-school sophomore - desensitized from reality by frequently viewed Internet imagery - accidentally captures on video the final moments of admired twin senior classmates dying from poisoned drugs. Rather than galvanize the school or this lad's life in any profound or meaningful way, the tragedy causes barely a ripple in the already emotionally diminished and out-of-touch lives of everyone around.... (Full plot summary below)
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Having joined a recently created video club, a lowly prep-school sophomore - desensitized from reality by frequently viewed Internet imagery - accidentally captures on video the final moments of admired twin senior classmates dying from poisoned drugs. Rather than galvanize the school or this lad's life in any profound or meaningful way, the tragedy causes barely a ripple in the already emotionally diminished and out-of-touch lives of everyone around.
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| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsThis is a major debut. A dystopic vision, yes; but in comparison with the usual school high-jinks from US cinema - fiercely fresh and corrosively memorable. |
| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsWhatever happened to the analog days when kids found contentment by cramming phone booths, sitting on flagpoles or simply going steady? |
| Film4Anton BitelIt's sex, lies and videotape in a privileged high school as Antonio Campos casts a cold eye over the adolescent state of postmodernity. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyAntonio Campos's character study of a prep school social misfit named Robert (Ezra Miller) is an intimate psychological journey into a coded juvenile mindset. |
| Philadelphia City PaperSam AdamsCampos has developed a style of his own, one that owes as much to video installations as it does to cinematic narrative. |
| AV ClubScott TobiasAfterschool 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. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanAfterschool, the almost frighteningly accomplished first feature made by Antonio Campos when he was 24, is high school as horror show. |
| Times (UK)Wendy IdeIf there is one distinctive and promising voice to come out of the info-bite aesthetic of the YouTube generation it is Antonio Campos, whose debut feature Afterschool puts an intriguing spin on the high-school tragedy. |
| London Evening StandardDerek MalcolmThis is certainly an original work, but not entirely successful in saying anything new about the way we watch "reality" today at second hand. |
| Metro (UK)Larushka Ivan-ZadehProvocative, unflinching and stripped of anything approaching a consoling music soundtrack, it's a must for fans of challenging, A+ intelligent cinema desperately seeking the antithesis of High School Musical. |