-The Los Angeles Times reviews THE AFTERLIGHT: "visual artistry...nothing short of masterful."

- David Sterritt of the National Society of Film Critics gives THE AFTERLIGHT a strong review. Listen to mp3 podcast: Here 

- "A genuine American Art Film" - Mike Wilmington of Movie City News reviews The Afterlight. For complete review please visit: Movie City News 

- Cinema Purgatorio acquires The Afterlight. For complete coverage please visit: Indiewire 

- New York Times reviews The Afterlight: "intoxicating beauty ... a minimalist mood poem to loss and alienation" 

- Variety reviews The Afterlight: "cryptic images of ominous beauty ... plumbs female mysteries beyond male ken"

- Time Out reviews The Afterlight -  "Alexei Kaleina and Craig Macneill's  proudly minimalist affair favors ambiguity over soap-operatic, evoking the inescapable heartache of a loss so great, it cannot be uttered"

- I-D Magazine reviews The Afterlight: "Stunning cinematic debut... A film guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat."

-MY MOVIES Review of The Afterlight: "systematic combination between the poetry of Antonioni and the aesthetics of Van Sant." 

- Variety reports on the International Rome Film Festival - "American indie directorial duo Alexei Kaleina and Craig Macneill will bow their first  feature, The Afterlight, about a New York City couple who move into an abandoned country house, in the fest's EXTRA section dedicated to cutting-edge works. EXTRA scours the planet for the most original and innovative films around."

-Major Italian newspaper, Corriere Della Sera, features The Afterlight - "Among the suprises in... [The "Extra"] section is "The Afterlight," by Alexei Kaleina and Craig Macneill, two young men from Brooklyn that tell the story of a couple in crisis. The landscapes and images recall the era of silent film.

- Photos on Getty Images from the world premiere screening in Rome

- International Rome Film Festival program summary for The Afterlight - "The Afterlight is a debut of suggestions that proudly display an echo of Antonioni (and perhaps Russian or Lithuanian influences in the lyrical vocation of the landscape and the mystery of the characters' thoughts). The two young directors speak the language of cinema with precision, expertise and fascination, where the story is driven like a breeze of pure images."

- The Afterlight was featured as the headlining story in the "In Focus" section of Filmmaker Magazine.