4.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Afterlight (2025)
Afterlight (2025)
Overview
Afterlight is a sci-fi anthology film featuring five interconnected stories set in a future marked by war, artificial intelligence, and fractured timelines. It examines humanity's struggles for connection, survival, and meaning. Directed by Alison Kohlhardt and Andrew McGee, the film stars Rachanee Lumayno, Gemma Pilar Alfaro, and Linda-Jean Barry.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
4.4
Overview
Afterlight is a sci-fi anthology film featuring five interconnected stories set in a future marked by war, artificial intelligence, and fractured timelines. It examines humanity's struggles for connection, survival, and meaning. Directed by Alison Kohlhardt and Andrew McGee, the film stars Rachanee Lumayno, Gemma Pilar Alfaro, and Linda-Jean Barry.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The anthology's interconnected stories address systemic failures in technology, war, environment, and capitalism, championing empathy and human connection as antidotes to dehumanizing structures. This narrative framework underscores progressive critiques of institutional power.
The anthology features a cast reflecting ethnic diversity through leads of Asian, Latina, and Latino descent in its futuristic tales. Stories emphasize human connections amid technological and temporal challenges, incorporating elements like a disabled female protagonist without foregrounding critiques of conventional identities.
Secondary
The anthology depicts family through stories of loss, single parenting, and efforts to reunite biological kin amid dystopian threats, portraying relationships as fragile yet vital without favoring traditional or progressive structures. Decisive factors include the neutral treatment of widowhood and familial separation as narrative drivers rather than moral exemplars.
The sci-fi anthology Afterlight contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes across its five segments exploring war, AI, and human survival.
The anthology film features no transgender characters or themes across its five sci-fi segments exploring war, AI, and human connection.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Afterlight is an original sci-fi anthology featuring five standalone stories with newly created characters, none drawn from prior source material or historical figures, resulting in no gender swaps.
Afterlight consists of five original sci-fi short stories featuring newly created characters in futuristic settings, without adaptations from prior source material or depictions of historical figures, leading to no instances of race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
3.7
5.1
Critic Ratings
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