The film chronicles the stories of various near-death experience survivors, and features analysis of these events by authors and scientists as they try to determine what happens after people die.

[3] The film features interviews, as well as re-enactments of events, as the people in the documentary discuss what may happen after death.

[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 28 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

"[14] Variety's Owen Gleiberman similarly criticized After Death's approach, writing "After a while… we start to notice that the film is presenting the recoveries themselves as miracles… That's fine; maybe it's even faith.

"[15] Indiewire's David Ehrlich, giving it a "D" grade, was also negative: "Audiences who swear by the gospel of Colton Burpo probably won't see the problem here, but those of us who are less inclined to believe… might struggle to accept a handful of teary anecdotes and bizarre medical anomalies as compelling evidence that Christianity got everything right about life after death.