After the Hunt is one of the most buzzed-about films this year, and it’s about to hit theaters on Friday (October 17).
From Luca Guadagnino, the movie is described as “a gripping psychological drama about a college professor (Julia Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light.”
Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny also star in the psychological thriller.
But what are critics saying about the film?
Keep reading to find out more…
The film currently has a 42% Rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The New York Times says: “From start to finish, After the Hunt sets its audience adrift on a sea of unmoored signifiers, flailing to keep up with all the arm-wavey gestures at academia and bourgeois morality and ethics, providing nothing beneath to hold it all together.”
The LA Times says: “Guadagnino’s driving interest is attacking academia as a rat’s nest of egomaniacs and cowards and insular, faux-radical thinking. The cold lighting has visible contempt for everyone onscreen.”
THR says: “It seems almost implausible that the gifted filmmaker who just gave us the sizzling buoyancy of Challengers and the heady intoxication of Queer could deliver something so dour and airless.”
Observer gives it 2 out of 4 stars, writing: “The star-studded After the Hunt has a lot on its mind about human complexities, but largely expresses these notions in didactic form and through dramatic conflict that all but resolves itself halfway through the movie’s languid 2 hours and 18 minutes.”
Rolling Stone says: “The result is just old-fashioned cinematic fools’ gold, in which sensationalistic blather poses as social commentary. It takes a lot of hard work and the perfect alignment of movie stars to make something this god-awful.”
See the stars at the film’s London premiere!
Source: justjared.com