"From her ripped-from-the-pages-of- Architecture Digest home right down to her Loewe loafers, you immediately glean a certain girlboss-ery that invites easy admirers and even easier adversaries. She champions women-or so we're told until her favorite student, Maggie Price (Ayo Edebiri, who is sadly no match for Roberts), claims that Imhoff's colleague and friend, Hank Gibson (Andrew Garfield), sexually assaulted her after the pair left a gathering at her home."
"Naturally, both parties maintain their innocence and expect allegiance from Imhoff. In true man-who-just-got-caught fashion, Gibson invites Imhoff for lunch to not only assert Price (a queer woman in a relationship with a fellow student) came onto him, but that she's plagiarizing in her dissertation. Much has been made of Roberts' performance, but Garfield positing himself as a victim whilst sucking grease from a chicken bone off his fingers is proof positive that he should play a villain more often."
Alma Imhoff, a renowned Yale philosophy professor, confronts competing loyalties after student Maggie Price accuses colleague Hank Gibson of sexual assault. Both Gibson and Price claim innocence and seek Imhoff's allegiance; Gibson accuses Price of seduction and dissertation plagiarism. Imhoff ultimately sides with Price, though her motivations appear complicated by ambition, tenure competition, and personal loyalties. Andrew Garfield's portrayal frames Gibson as a self-pitying antagonist, while Roberts portrays Imhoff with steely control. The film methodically presents possibilities about truth and motive before culminating in a final act that relies on a regressive, statistically unlikely trope.
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