Julia Roberts leads screenwriter Nora Garrett’s thorny new movie, ‘After the Hunt’

‘After the Hunt’ And The Harrowing Misbelief Of Black Women

By Jaelani Turner-Williams ·Updated October 15, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… New Luca Guadagnino-directed psychological drama After the Hunt puts viewers face-to-face with a topic that has spent generations being swept under the rug: sexual violence against Black women.Although not a perfect film, After the Hunt centers on the uncommon trope of a Black woman in distress after accusing a white man of sexual assault. In the middle…

'After the Hunt' Screenwriter Nora Garrett Answers All of Your Lingering Questions About the Controversial Campus Drama

'After the Hunt' writer Nora Garrett answers lingering questions about the Luca Guadagnino film starring Ayo Edebiri and Julia Roberts, from its MeToo story to the ending.

Julia Roberts leads screenwriter Nora Garrett’s thorny new movie, ‘After the Hunt’

It’s a grown-up drama, to be sure, and one that doesn’t hold its audience’s hand as scandals rush through the cloistered halls of Yale. -- John Wenzel, The Denver Post

After the Hunt review: Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri go head to head

With After the Hunt, Luca Guadagnino pivots away from his recent Challengers and Queer to offer a taut psychological thriller where nothing is clear-cut. Guadagnino’s film begins with respected Yale University professor Alma (Julia Roberts) readying herself to host an evening soirée for her colleagues and top students. Among them are Alma’s colleague and close friend, Hank (Andrew Garfield), and Maggie (Ayo Edebiri), a young gay philosophy stude…

The Age of Unhinged-Professor Art

"After the Hunt," the new psychodrama from Luca Guadagnino, is unlikely to endear you to elite higher education, to excuse whatever pretensions and egos, no matter how sympathetic you might have been feeling toward the nation's Columbias and Harvards amid…