Absolutely brilliant

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Antonio Campos delivers a slow and hypnotically paced film that keeps it's audience on edge with just a few disturbing scenes that leave the viewer to speculate rather than to spell it all out. The film deals with Robert, a school kid who's camera pics up the death of two school girls, and the events around the deaths. Robert seems to be just a shy kid at first, a regular teen. But there's soon revealed to be a darker side to him and a rather disassociated psych. In this generation of dissociation through images, these are themes myself and my own generation are dealing with today. There is hope in the chaos that the film puts forth and some good natured characters all dealing with guilt surrounding the death of the two girls. But there is an eye opening eeriness to the detachment and the falseness of some people in these situations. 8 out of ten stars

Just a warning to those who are disturbed by seeing clips of actual murder, actual abuse against women and a bunch of other violent and graphic imagery. All of this appears in the first few minutes of the movie when the Ezra Miller character is surfing videos on the internet mostly graphic violence including real clips of murder and then lands on some porn showing a young woman being intentionally and extensively humiliated and then choked in what is obviously a more than she bargained for aspect of the clip which ends with the actual sex act. There is other fictionalized stuff that is disturbing later on but the first few minutes alone would make this movie unwatchable to most people. This unfortunately was on my cable company's on-demand menu without any warnings as to its extremely disturbing content.

They should call this movie "School" because the movie was just as boring as it. The Movie was a long slow and boring movie leading up to nothing. It was a complete waste of time. I Do not recommend seeing this movie, it is boring and the so called "TWIST" at the end was not much of a twist at all. The slow shots where things were cut off were really annoying, and I didn't enjoy watching a boy masturbate for no apparent reason for the movie. I also didn't enjoy staring at the back of his head for like an hour. terrible movie, not worth watching, not worth anything, I wouldn't waste 90 minutes of my life on this movie, I recommend watching "You're Next"

"...but I can safely say that's probably the worst thing I've ever seen. You didn't even have music!"Well, I AM an editor, and I couldn't agree more about this whole mess. Honestly, they really should teach film school kids not to sum up their worst critiques by themselves, and then stop them when they want to put said review in their s*****y film, making sure to underline it in case we forgot.It boggles my mind how smart, sensitive people who claim to love cinema can love (I mean really love, not just begrudgingly respect) Stanley Kubrick. But to start orally fellating a 24 year-old kid who is so overtly ripping off an overused - and frankly highly questionable - aesthetic to no apparent end, is really beyond me."Afterschool" takes a brilliant title and (unfortunately) a barely engaging or interesting concept (at best), and then goes to great pains to make you not care. "We're all becoming more and more disconnected from each other, our feelings, and our humanity in this new digital age." No f***ing s**t, Sherlock. Fortune cookies have more insight.Campos obviously loves what he's doing (and by that I mean he loves pointing out that life is a hollow, static, arid, poorly-framed affair). And while I applaud a filmmaker who cares more about a visual experience than he does a (in this case almost non-existent) script (what with that terribly embarrassing thesis and all), any artist still has to maintain a modicum of humanity - especially when he's decrying the zeitgeist for lacking the very same. Not to mention that most of the visuals in this piece have (it's been pointed out) been done many times before, by people far more with-it.This dreary, pedantic tripe needs to be ridiculed, for Campos' sake, if not for our own. For shame.