After The Hunt

 After The Hunt is a Luca Guadagnino film, saying those words genuinely depresses me. This brilliant filmmaker lives to provoke and most times sticks the landing, this time he falls flat on his face. The film centers on Harvard professor Alma (Julia Roberts) who finds herself in a moral dilemma when her star pupil (Ayo Edebiri) accuses her friend and colleague (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault. This is one of the most misguided, tone deaf, hateful, artless and morally ugly films i have seen in some time and the fact that a filmmaker and cast of this level of talent is involved merely adds to the disappointment. No topic is off limits in film, but if you are even gonna attempt to engage with this subject matter at all you better have something nuanced and meaningful to say, After The Hunt says nothing and spends 2 hours and 20 minutes saying that nothing. What few insights that do breakthrough are so muddled that it borders on celebrating blaming the victim. After The Hunt is easily one of the worst films of 2025 and considering the folks involved it feels like a betrayal. 

I Give It 0 Stars!!!