After We Leave

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Brian M @RT45519128 Jun 17, 2025 Talk about false advertising. Not really much in the way of sci-fi here. Basically, every character is a sadistic asshole screwing over the other characters. Throw in some unnecessary, “edgy” torture porn and revenge porn and you have a massive waste of time. I cannot put into words how much I despise this movie. See more

Aaron G @GeigOmatic Jan 31, 2023 Don't remember much but rated it low internally See more

Aug 2, 2021 82 minutes of hide and seek with no objective except to "tag ya". See more

bryan b @heybryan Jun 15, 2020 Low tech and and understated. What would you do to get off a dying world. See more

May 24, 2020 Sci-dry. Promises a lot but delivers very little. It's a tiring – had to fast-forward several times –story about a tired man melodramatically looking for his spouse in nonsensical ways. See more

Apr 20, 2020 I saw this film and liked it when it premiered but was drawn back to it again since we started social isolating. Something about the world Hossain envisioned feels uncannily prescient now. The future has arrived, not with a nuclear Hollywood SFX bang - fitting, now that Hollywood has been put out of business by a virus - but in the form of a society locked in paralysis by its own dysfunction. The degraded remains of our way of life prey on our worst fears. Relationship wreckage from neglect and distraction has sheered the social fabric beyond repair. Policy solutions have failed. The destruction of the planet looks more like, well, what we see out our windows. People not working. People vaguely afraid of each other at all times. The only way out is up, a lottery rigged with familiar bias and injustice. Hossain poses a simple contingency for Jack (Brian Silverman) that motivates his story, a requirement that he reconcile with his ex-wife to use his ticket. More character drama art film than Sci-Fi that resists easy adrenaline and escapist "wow" factor, a film this self-disciplined took guts. It compels us to stare uncomfortably at the drab wreckage of our own lives, much like we are in this moment, and ask where we went wrong. It reveals a new auteur's vision that landed (just) ahead of its time. Now that time has come. See more

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