Vibe Tweak: Review of 'After the Hunt'

Vibe tweak: Review of 'After the Hunt'

Luca Guadagnino’s new MeToo-era drama After the Hunt begins with a credit sequence that meticulously recreates those that have adorned Woody Allen’s movies for the past 50 years: the names appear in a slender Windsor typeface on black. Guadagnino goes so far as to list the cast in alphabetical order, as is Allen’s wont, along with the very Allen-like use of a jazz standard, “A Child Is Born,” performed by Tony Bennett and Bill Evans. This seems …

Film reviews: A House of Dynamite, After the Hunt, and It Was Just an Accident

A House of DynamiteDirected by Kathryn Bigelow (R) ★★★Kathryn Bigelow’s first movie in eight years “takes the unthinkable and puts it right in front of us,” said Stephanie Zacharek in Time. A nuclear missile fired by an unknown overseas source has been spotted headed toward Chicago, and America’s crisis response team, including the president, has 18 minutes to attempt a defense and decide whether an instant counterstrike is worth risking a poten…