62%User score 62 percent
Aftermath
2024 · Action · Thriller
User Score
161 votes
What holds them together will tear them apart.
When Ellen and Paul’s son Josh introduces his new girlfriend at their 25th anniversary party, no one suspects that it is the beginning of the end for this happy family. The new girlfriend is Liz, Ellen’s former student, who left the university, some years before, after Ellen called her out in class for her radical ideology.
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Manuel São Bento
October 28, 2025
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://movieswetextedabout.com/anniversary-movie-review-when-political-ideologies-tear-the-perfect-family-apart/ "Anniversary is an engaging, high-voltage thriller that explores the gradually shocking transformation of a happy family into a destructive and self-destructive force, all due to socio-political ideologies. With a luxury cast delivering memorable performances, Jan Komasa gives u…
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April 15, 2026
It’s frightening how quickly, easily and seemingly innocuously circumstances in society can change (and in a wide range of areas, too). One day you’re leading a tranquil, happy life and the next you’re a pariah under the scrutiny of a totalitarian, cult-like sociopolitical movement (conditions to which many of us can probably relate these days). Such is the experience of Ellen and Paul Taylor (Diane Lane, Kyle Chandl…
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Martin Oaks
July 15, 2026
**It’s not polarization... It’s Fascism** A disturbing and prescient political, pseudo-dystopian thriller that uses the disintegration of a wealthy family as a metaphor for the collapse of democracy in the United States. Elisabeth is now part of this family, and she is also the mind behind the successful literary work "The Change"—a rising radical political movement promoting a one-party system under the promise of o…
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