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
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