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‘Here After’ Review: A Child Returns From Death’s Door in Uninspired Supernatural Drama
Robert Salerno’s 'Here After' has Connie Britton as a perplexed mother in a polished mix of undercooked horror elements and redemption sentimentality.
Despite the efforts of toplining Connie Britton as an American expat in Rome, Robert Salerno ’s feature directorial bow ultimately feels like a supernatural drama suited for television, too mild in its suspense and too pat in its soapy emphasis on maternal suffering. Over the last quarter-century, Salerno has produced films by a number of distinctive auteurs, including Charlie Kaufman, Lynne Ramsay, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Brady Corbet, Tom Ford and Billy Bob Thornton, as well as the more overtly commercial 2022 hit “Smile” and its imminent sequel. A brain scan turns up no discernible issues, but when Claire begins experiencing frightful hallucinations herself, she decides the adolescent must be possessed by some evil entity after visiting “the other side.” Church authorities and Luca dismiss that as nonsense.
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