US EditionReel Thoughts: ‘After the Hunt’ Proves a Star-Studded Cast Does Not Equal a Stellar Film
The film explores the impact of a sexual assault accusation on Yale's academic community, with the lead character navigating complex fallout, released less than a year after Guadagnino's last film.
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What Even Is 'After The Hunt'?
After the Hunt, the latest film from Luca Guadagnino, is ostensibly about a great many things. It is a film about campus politics, generational divide, the slippery nature of power dynamics, fantasy kitchen apartments, and whether you can be too much of a wife guy. But After the Hunt is mostly incoherent—a film that wants to embrace thorny topics but does so in service of online discourse rather than a good story. It is also a movie that was onc…
A professor finds herself in a #MeToo scandal between the fronts: "After the Hunt, Julia Roberts shows up at the height of her skill.
Reel Thoughts: ‘After the Hunt’ proves a star-studded cast does not equal a stellar film
Content warning: This article mentions sexual assault. Andrew Garfield. Ayo Edebiri. Julia Roberts. What these three have in common, besides an impressive array of awards, is that they lead the star-studded cast of Luca Guadagnino’s newest film, “After the Hunt,” one of my most highly anticipated films of the year. However, with its subpar plot...
After The Hunt review – Julia Roberts' best role in yonks
Luca Guadagnino's knotty psychodrama confronts our most selfish impulses against the backdrop of a Yale University scandal. Desire is the lifeblood that runs through Luca Guadagnino's filmography. Usually this takes the form of carnal or romantic need – though through Bones and All, Challengers and Queer he explored cannibalism, sporting greatness and addiction. In After the Hunt, from a script written by Nora Garrett, it's the pursuit of power …
Richard & Sean: ‘After the Hunt’ Flop Has a Silver Lining (Really!)
ShareSubscribe nowWhen Amazon MGM Studios hit CinemaCon in the spring, execs made sure theater owners knew the company’s commitment to the theatrical business was authentic, with a promised slate of 14 movies in 2026. So in the face of Amazon MGM’s latest flop, Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt — which scuffled at the Venice Film Festival and New York Film Festival on the awards circuit before cratering this weekend with $1.55 million from more t…
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