After the Hunt (2025)

	Directed by: Luca Guadagnino	COUNTRY Italy/USA GENRE Drama/Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE After the Hunt RUNNING TIME 139 minutes
	Produced by: Brian Grazer Allan Mandelbaum Luca Guadagnino
	Written by: Nora Garrett

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Alma Imhoff	Julia Roberts
Maggie Resnick	Ayo Edebiri
Henrik "Hank" Gibson	Andrew Garfield
Frederik Mendelssohn	Michael Stuhlbarg	½
Dr. Kim Sayers	Chloë Sevigny	½
Katie	Thaddea Graham	-
Dean RJ Thomas	David Leiber	-
Alex	Lío Mehiel	-

Review

This is a discursive, refreshingly undogmatic look at the culture of accusation that has reportedly been corroding North American universities and campuses over the past decade. As with 2022's Tár, After the Hunt examines the generation gap between the now-governing, disillusioned Gen X and the more morally sensitive, sensationalistic younger generation. Although director Luca Guadagnino's unwillingness to adopt a stance also renders his film somewhat vague and unfocused at certain junctures, the picture has a strong dramatic drive and a moral tension that make it an engaging, at times harrowing watch. If the role of Maggie had been inhabited by a more talented actress than Ayo Edebiri, the effect could perhaps have been even stronger. There are powerful performances by the other leads, including Andrew Garfield as a college professor accused of sexual assault by a student, Julia Roberts as his world-weary colleague caught in the crossfire, and, most notably, Michael Stuhlbarg, who delivers a complex exhibition of repressed passion and passive aggression as Roberts' husband.