After the Hunt
Amazon MGM Studios | Release Date: October 10, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
24
Negative:
3

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The TimesKevin MaherAug 29, 2025
Guadagnino is also on the form of his life, directing with assured style and structure, and offering a lovely closing device that asks us to relax, calm down and remember that it’s all just playtime. Read full review
100
The TelegraphRobbie CollinAug 29, 2025
It’s a film that prowls around with blood in its nostrils, watching us as intently as we watch it, and waiting for just the right moment to strike. Read full review
83
Original-CinLiz BraunOct 17, 2025
After The Hunt is elusive, but you won’t stop thinking about it after you see it — that’s a good thing. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesOct 16, 2025
It’s one of Roberts’ best ever performances, not in least part because of how confidently she wears her age and Alma’s secrets, now that her ingénue years are firmly behind her. The woman with the mile-wide smile is no longer interested in courting our favor. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerOct 1, 2025
After The Hunt does eventually add up to something greater than its flood of but-what-about details. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comTomris LafflySep 29, 2025
Sometimes, we should be made uncomfortable. And that is, in the end, what “After the Hunt” attempts and mostly succeeds in. Read full review
70
Little White LiesHannah StrongOct 22, 2025
The smart, keenly observed and undoubtedly thorny power play of After the Hunt make it an arresting psychodrama, confronting our willingness to swallow our own suffering in the name of self-preservation as well as what we owe to ourselves and each other in an imperfect, cheerfully cutthroat society. Read full review
70
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Radheyan SimonpillaiOct 16, 2025
Guadagnino’s film feels small and overwrought in comparison; satisfied to drag things out within the bubble of faux academia (and cinephilia, with a pointed nod in Woody Allen’s direction). But it does have its pleasures, specifically where the actors speak less and make us feel so much more in performance and action. Read full review
70
The New YorkerJustin ChangOct 6, 2025
After the Hunt will be derided as little more than an intellectual parlor trick, a flimsy house of cards. I wouldn’t disagree, but few directors build more luxurious houses than Guadagnino does, whatever the materials. Read full review
70
Screen RantJack WaltersAug 30, 2025
While After the Hunt succeeds at the first, it’s the screenplay’s lingering indecision that ultimately lets the story down. Read full review
70
Next Best PictureCody DericksAug 30, 2025
After the Hunt struggles to decide precisely how it wants to approach its examination of the (to reference one of Alma’s teaching topics) panopticon-like method of dealing with allegations of amorality in today’s society. But thanks to Guadagnino’s strong filmic choices, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ unnerving musical score, and striking performances, it still manages to draw audiences into its chilling, unsteady world effectively. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldOct 15, 2025
It’s odd that Guadagnino clearly wanted to make a movie that people would talk about, but doesn’t seem quite sure of what he wanted it to say. Read full review
63
The Associated PressJake CoyleOct 9, 2025
Its plot turns can be rash or implausible, and the movie increasingly feels like ideas and set pieces strung tenuously together. Read full review
63
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiSep 25, 2025
Centering around a stoic woman who elbowed her way to the top of her field in a world of men in tweed suits, only for it all to be put at risk, the plot has heavy shades of 2022’s “Tar,” which is a much better movie. Read full review
60
EmpireLaura VenningOct 15, 2025
A decidedly grown-up thriller that will surely be torn to pieces by teens on TikTok, this feels like a slight wobble for Guadagnino, but is still a sharply entertaining and intense watch. Read full review
60
ColliderNate RichardOct 9, 2025
It features terrific performances from Roberts and Garfield, but even they are not enough to save the film from being too muddled and morally ambiguous for its own good. Read full review
60
BBCNicholas BarberAug 29, 2025
It's refreshing to see a grown-up Hollywood film that takes on contemporary issues: feminism, cancel culture, identity politics, and the generation gap. But After the Hunt is more of an admirable project than an engaging drama, because it never stops reminding you of how clever it wants to be. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 29, 2025
After the Hunt might be confused, and it might even be unsatisfying — but it also refuses to coddle anyone, and that feels like some sort of victory. Read full review
58
The PlaylistRafaela Sales RossAug 29, 2025
A bothersome, ever-present sense of constraint permeates this twisted drama on the complexities of Gen Z morality. The Italian auteur, renowned for gnawing at the knotty edges of controversy with the unrestrained hunger of the unbothered, seems somewhat hesitant to fully dig into the messiness of the piping hot issue at hand. Read full review
55
The Travers TakePeter TraversOct 11, 2025
There’s good reason to throw stones at Luca Gaudagnino’s teasing provocation about cancel culture. So have at its dawdling, blowhard, philosophical pretensions, but the film—riding on the power source that is Julia Roberts—stubbornly lingers in the memory. Read full review
55
The Daily BeastNick SchagerSep 29, 2025
Affords Julia Roberts with her best part in years as a professor whose role in a burgeoning scandal threatens to expose her deep, dark (related) secrets. She’s not enough, however, to make this wannabe-conversation starter coherent, much less insightful. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 25, 2025
As current as these issues and this debate remains, a story meant to pass judgement after the dust settles just comes off as mediocre, murky, both-sidesing virtue signalling from a writer out of her depth. Read full review
50
The RevealScott TobiasOct 16, 2025
The cast does well to make the button-pushing read like complexity—Stuhlbarg, the secret MVP of Call Me By Your Name, acquits himself best here, too— but it all looks a bit like Guadagnino is pleading for mercy for adults who should know better. No, thanks. Read full review
50
Washington PostMonica HesseOct 15, 2025
The kind of statement that makes you feel like you’re watching a movie not about real people but about how eight years after #MeToo, we still haven’t figured out how to talk about it at all. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonOct 9, 2025
After the Hunt seems wildly desperate to be seen as provocative about things like cancel culture and the “feminist generation gap.” But my overriding sense was that some earlier, better version of the script exists, and all the political stuff was stapled on later to make it feel more “relevant.” Read full review
50
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaSep 21, 2025
While its desire to question absolutes is admirable, there’s a hollowness at the film’s core that prevents it from having a more pointed impact beyond surface provocation. Read full review
50
ObserverSiddhant AdlakhaSep 8, 2025
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. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyAug 29, 2025
As riveting as she is, Roberts ultimately is ill-served by a film so studiously cryptic that it ends up just frustrating. To be fair, there are several electric confrontations, distributed evenly enough to ensure that After the Hunt remains absorbing. But even so, this is a date movie to be used in relationship sabotage maneuvers. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanAug 29, 2025
After the Hunt has been made with a fair amount of craft and intrigue, but it’s also a weirdly muddled experience — a tale that’s tense and compelling at times, but dotted with contrivances and too many vague unanswered questions. That’s why, in the end, it’s a less than satisfying movie. Read full review
50
IndieWireRyan LattanzioAug 29, 2025
It’s an overintellectualized script that reduces its characters to broad stand-ins and mouthpieces for hot topics, bizarrely retrograde, and a few beats behind the times in interrogating both the post-#MeToo context of how assault charges are handled, reacted to, and also in untangling a tricky identity politics inquiry that brushes against race and gender issues. Read full review
42
The Film StageLeonardo GoiAug 29, 2025
After the Hunt aims to tackle our so-called cancel culture, but wrestling with that weighty topic isn’t the same as meaningfully reckoning with it; if there’s anything genuinely uncomfortable about Guadagnino’s film, it’s not button-pushing issues but the reactionary way it squanders them. Read full review
40
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeOct 16, 2025
Every scene, like the effusions of the worst social-media bore, dares different bits of the audience to get righteously furious. Few will be minded to bother. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithOct 10, 2025
The subject matter is worthy of serious dramatic interrogation, and there’s a good movie in here someplace. But “After the Hunt” feels like a messy first-draft script, shoddily directed, rather than an accomplished feature from a veteran filmmaker. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonOct 9, 2025
He’s made a mystery with no curiosity, a cautionary tale with no good advice. It’s unclear if Guadagnino’s elites believe their moral arguments don’t apply to themselves or if they’re just stupid — or if the script makes them do stupid things to keep the audience off guard. Regardless, raise a glass of Pinot anytime someone says “This was a mistake.” Read full review
40
The Irish TimesTara BradySep 2, 2025
Conveniently set against the fraught contemporary environs of Yale University’s philosophy department, After the Hunt offers a dull retread of the PC-gone-mad arguments that have dominated the culture wars since the 1990s. Read full review
40
TimeStephanie ZacharekAug 30, 2025
[Guadagnino] has made some gorgeous, stirring movies—I Am Love and Queer among them—but After the Hunt feels more like an artistic thesis, and despite its needling provocations, it offers fewer cerebral pleasures than he thinks. Read full review
40
Screen DailyNikki BaughanAug 29, 2025
While it may wish to spark debate, the stance it takes on its messaging is troubling – particularly given a stapled-on coda that seems to suggest we should be putting all of this nonsense behind us. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 29, 2025
The movie is clenched with its own sense of contemporary relevance and risky blurred lines, saddled with an almost deafening score that often grinds straight through the dialogue; the drama becomes an atonal quartet of self-consciousness. Read full review
30
LooperAudrey FoxOct 9, 2025
After the Hunt is a slog that wastes the talents of its stars on unlikeable characters in befuddling situations, rarely coming near a coherent plot point with any degree of competence. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonOct 14, 2025
Nora Garrett’s screenplay isn’t concerned with fleshed out characters; everyone here is a stand-in for some issue designed to get a rise out of the audience. Read full review
10
Rolling StoneDavid FearOct 9, 2025
It takes a lot of hard work and the perfect alignment of movie stars to make something this god-awful. Read full review
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