After Words
Level 33 Entertainment | Release Date: August 21, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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1
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3
Negative:
3
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67
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisAug 19, 2015
Predictable but never coy about it, After Words speaks to the fateful connection that sometimes occurs between two people under the most improbable circumstances. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedAug 20, 2015
After Words is part adventure, part love story, part travelogue, and all as synthetic as rayon. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaAug 20, 2015
Pat and silly, the movie offers a wheezy moral that a buttoned-up American just needs a sensitive Latino and some ethnic cuisine to end the blues. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 19, 2015
Director Juan Feldman trusts his actors to charm us, which they do — up to a point. But there’s only so much that can be wrung out of this spinster-meets-exotic stud, “Summertime”-lite affair. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAug 20, 2015
The good news about After Words is that it offers Marcia Gay Harden a rare film lead. The bad news: Harden's role in this groan-worthy dramedy is so dreary and ill-conceived that even her formidable talents can't bring it to life. Read full review
30
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerAug 20, 2015
Ms. Harden is fine in a role that requires little, but her character is a lazy stereotype that ought to make real librarians wince. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMeave GallagherAug 18, 2015
Feldman, having established all his stereotypes, refuses to push them beyond the motions you know they have to go through from the first scene of lonely Jane crying into her cat's fur. Read full review
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