After The Hunt Review: An Exceptional Julia Roberts Performance Cannot Save This Muddled Academia Drama

Andrew Garfield and Julia Roberts in After The Hunt.

When After The Hunt starts, two philosophy professors and one of their students walk out of a party. The punchline? It comes, but not until after the story slowly descends into a very long, dark pit before sign of it reaching its destination flatly echoes. There’s an intriguing intention in Luca Guadagnino’s latest feature film to discuss power dynamics in many of its forms in the academic setting of Yale University. It thrives on not giving you easy answers, but more significantly, it leaves you with little to no intellectual questions to raise.

After The Hunt

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Release Date: October 10, 2025
Directed By: Luca Guadagnino
Written By: Nora Garrett
Starring: Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloë Sevigny
Rating: R for language and some sexual content
Runtime: 139 minutes