"After the Hunt: Luca Guadagnino's he/said, she/said, they/said provocation knocks high-minded institutions off lofty pedestals but it spends nonstop time reveling in showing humanity at its worst. It's a movie that aims to make you angry, and it does it so well you all but wonder, in the end, if it has anything new to say. First-time screenwriter Nora Garrett assembles a viper's nest of academics and one star student, but no one is likable."
"Roberts delivers what could well be the performance of her career as philosophy professor Alma Imhoff. The poised Alma basks in the idolization of others an holds court often with her intellectual counterparts, including the bucking-for-tenure charmer of a professor Hank Gibson (Andrew Garfield channeling roguish smarminess better than you'd ever think possible). When Alma's star pupil Maggie (The Bear's Ayo Edebiri) comes to Alma the day after a party held at Alma's posh house and claims Hank sexually assaulted her,"
The film centers on Alma Imhoff, a revered Yale philosophy professor whose career unravels after a star student accuses a colleague of sexual assault. Alma navigates betrayal, shaming, and institutional rot as backstabbing and shocking revelations expose the moral bankruptcy of the academic community. No character emerges as sympathetic, including Alma's husband and confidante. The screenplay assembles a viper's nest of academics but grows repetitive, outlandish, and overlong. Julia Roberts delivers perhaps the performance of her career, commanding scenes and searingly confronting students. Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloe Sevigny contribute strong supporting work.
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