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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80EmpireEmpireA sometimes shocking, often moving journey through a blood-stained corner of the past. Like Costa Gavras's "Missing" through the eyes of an everyday Chilean.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawWith its pale, washed-out colour palette, its eerily slow, almost somnambulist pacing and occasionally bizarre emotional demonstrations, Post Mortem is strangely gripping.
- 80Total FilmTom DawsonTotal FilmTom DawsonThis is a chilling portrayal of a deeply unsympathetic protagonist.
- Intriguing but understated.
- 70Village VoiceMelissa AndersonVillage VoiceMelissa AndersonOften drolly, coolly morbid, Post Mortem also operates just as effectively in a more nakedly direct register.
- 63Slant MagazineNick SchagerSlant MagazineNick SchagerPablo Larraín employs ultra-widescreen cinematography for constricting close-ups and inhospitably alienating compositions that generate a nasty chill, the director keeping the army's brutality off screen to amplify a sense of oppressive malevolence.
- 60Time OutDavid FearTime OutDavid FearWith his sophomore feature, "Tony Manero" (2008), filmmaker Pablo Larraín gave us both a memorably maniacal main character and a black-joke metaphor about the free-floating psychosis wafting through Pinochet's Chile.
- 60The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottThe sweep and energy of historical drama are notably missing from this grim, intense, mordantly comic little film.