After's reviews
Media reviews
The A.V. Club
"The real problem with After is that it?s a lifeless slog of thinly written clichés, one that?s missing the charismatic spark of the actual One Direction boys".
Los Angeles Times
"The problems may lie in Todd?s novel, but regardless, characters act illogically, [...] Character motivations go either unwritten or left on the cutting room floor".
Fotogramas
"For submissive teenagers with no domestic violence helpline in their phones".
Roger Ebert
"The performances are consistently monotone, and the dialogue is alternately treacly, in terms of romantic statements, and on-the-nose, in terms of giving Hardin a back story to explain his rebel act".
The Wrap
"One of the more plastic molds of troubled heartthrob storytelling in recent memory...is the kind of dispiriting effort that thinks it?s scratching an itch for masochistic young girls, but primarily suggests that romance, desire and sexuality aren?t worth genuinely exploring".