The Hunt
Universal Pictures | Release Date: March 13, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 45 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
21
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
92
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiMar 11, 2020
Zobel’s film grapples directly with the political spectrum and uses everything we love and hate about each other as fodder for humor and horror. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerMar 11, 2020
Whatever you think you know about The Hunt, you're wrong. And even if you're factually right, you're missing all the context that makes this big, nasty satire the political throat punch/rallying cry we all need. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyDarren FranichMar 11, 2020
The Hunt stuffs a satire grenade down America’s pants, hoping the shrapnel spreads from sea to shining sea. The explosion is messy, but it sure is an explosion, with a brisk hour-and-half runtime full of violent twists and cackling turns. Read full review
80
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoMar 11, 2020
The Hunt puts the "F-U" in midnight "fun" as no sides are safe in this middle-finger cultural roast that's as loudly defiant as it is proudly blood-soaked. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeMar 11, 2020
Craig Zobel’s breathless film is stuffed with delicious jokes and eye-watering Tom-and-Jerry violence. Read full review
80
IGNScott ColluraMar 11, 2020
Director Zobel and writers Lindelof and Cuse, peering through the lens of social media hijinks and polarized politics, paint a ridiculous picture of how we’re all eating ourselves alive. That they do so in such a fun and absurdly bloody way makes The Hunt worth a retweet at the very least. Read full review
75
Original-CinLiam LaceyMar 12, 2020
Within the frame of an old-fashioned stab-and-splatter exploitation flick, The Hunt is consistently smartish. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 11, 2020
At some point or another, you will be offended by The Hunt. But see it anyway, confident in the certainty that other people — people you don’t agree with, people you don’t like — will be offended, too. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrMar 11, 2020
A clever, gory, often very funny piece of genre junk — a B+ movie — that carries a hidden warning: When we turn other people into cartoons of our worst fears, the only thing left to do is kill each other. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittMar 11, 2020
The Hunt is definitely controversial, but it’s an equal-opportunity offender that forgoes partisanship to poke bloody, gory fun at everybody. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeMar 11, 2020
The Hunt turns out to be a good deal smarter — and no more extreme — than most studio horror films, while its political angle at least encourages debate, suggesting that there’s more to this hot potato than mere provocation. Read full review
67
ConsequenceMichael RoffmanMar 11, 2020
Scoff, roll your eyes, and shrug all you want, but the hyperbolic nature of The Hunt is all part of the fun, and whether you take this literally, or metaphorically, rhetorically, spiritually, whatever, it all boils down to a big ol’ sensationalized portrait of a very heated country. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMar 11, 2020
Combining the droll self-satisfaction of a New Yorker cartoon with the wet gore of an Eli Roth movie, Zobel’s tense, well-crafted, and deviant grindhouse take on the national temperature has no trouble caricaturing what ails us, but even that fun combo lacks the killer instinct required to see us more clearly than we see each other. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 2, 2020
Weaknesses in the movie’s final 15-20 minutes don’t detract from how enjoyable the rest of the film is with its over-the-top gore, wild misdirections, surprising twists, and unsubtle stereotype-based lampooning. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMar 12, 2020
The most shocking part of this too-shocking-for-audiences-today production is that Cuse and Lindelof are even involved, given the far smarter and sharper work they did last year on HBO’s "Watchmen," which took the carcass of U.S. politics and thoroughly eviscerated it in a new and startling fashion. Read full review
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