The film premiered in Japan on February 19 , 2011 . A few days after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan , the film was withdrawn from all cinemas in that country , two weeks earlier than originally planned . " Warner Bros. spokesperson Satoru Otani said the film 's terrifying tsunami scenes were ' not appropriate ' at this time . " '' Hereafter '' has received mixed reviews from critics . Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 46 % of critics – though 59 % of " top critics – have given the film a positive review based on 217 reviews , with an average score of 5.7 out of 10 . The critical consensus is : " Despite a thought-provoking premise and Clint Eastwood 's typical flair as director , '' Hereafter '' fails to generate much compelling drama , straddling the line between poignant sentimentality and hokey tedium . " Metacritic , another review aggregator , assigned the film a weighted average score of 56/100 based on 41 reviews . Roger Ebert , however , gave the film four stars ( out of four ) , calling it a film that " considers the idea of an afterlife with tenderness , beauty and a gentle tact . I was surprised to find it enthralling . " The film received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects , but lost to another Warner Bros. film , '' Inception '' . It won the Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture and was also nominated in the category of Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture
11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Hereafter (film)