After the Hunt

Luca Guadagnino's 2025 drama, despite featuring the unmistakable presence of Julia Roberts, ultimately fails to coalesce into a compelling cinematic experience. The narrative suffers from glaring inconsistencies, leaving too many unresolved questions that generate confusion rather than intrigue. Character arcs are poorly defined, undermining emotional engagement, while pivotal plot developments feel hastily constructed or superficially explored. Pacing is erratic: prolonged sequences linger without purpose, sapping momentum, while moments that should carry dramatic resonance fall disappointingly flat. Even the film's meticulous visual composition and polished cinematography cannot mask the shortcomings of a thin, underdeveloped script. In essence, this work represents a missed opportunity-an ambitious premise diluted by incoherence, unfulfilled narrative potential, and a frustratingly hollow execution.

I was drawn to After The Hunt because of Luca Guadagnino and the stellar cast, but once the first Woody Allen-esque scene is done, the film takes an extremely slow and uninteresting pace that makes the dialogue and characters somewhat infuriating to understand or even care about throughout the film. If it had been a faster pace, tighter script, and focused on the core story, it could've been an enjoyable watch. The acting is still really solid and the shots are beautiful with a score that is tantalizing, as always in Luca's films.

To get through this movie, but I did.

You keep waiting for the pace to pick up and bring the story forward, but it never happens.

You keep wishing is there something behind door number 2,3 and 4. There is not The acting is superb. Julia Roberts is very good.

If you have absolutely nothing else to watch, turn off the tv and do something else.

After the Hunt creates a very interesting world to step into, with some wonderful performances, especially from Julia Robert's. A cast of unlikeable cold characters in a set to the backdrop of a mostly cold or rainy Yale campus is not overly familiar or cliche, and therefore intriguing.

The craft of the film is there, it's hard not to admire the film making and cinematography at work. However some of the sound choices from the ticking clock at the start to pieces of music played loudly over dialogue are a bold choice that for me did not pay off, and feel lack any reasoning apart from a desire a be different.

The real flaw is the many veins of ideas the film has, but it feels unsure as to what it is trying to say, if anything at all. It wants us to question and challenge the ideas it highlights as those in the film do in their philosophy class, however we are not sure where to start, or what emotion or idea it has really been called into question. It also felt about 5 years late to the me too conversation.

Overall I think it's not a bad film, it creates a world, it has some humour that's well executed and great performances. However it feels its main objective is trying really hard to make us question the big topics it raises, but that's sadly where it falls down.

Movie is a mess... Poor story and poor directing.

Don't waste time and money in this film.... Sound editing is also ridiculous and weird.

I'm sorry but this is one of the worst movie of 2025.. Julia roberts acting is decent but this is the movie she should not be in. C- cinema score movie. Don't waste time in this movie.