A first time collaboration between Julia Roberts and Challengers and Queer filmmaker Luca Guadagnino was enough to make me sit up and take notice immediately.

Add in a twisty drama about assault allegations in an elite academia setting, and co-stars Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri, and I was almost convinced that After the Hunt couldn’t fail.

But while I was captivated by Roberts’ central performance as a flawed professor whose carefully maintained life threatens to be blown apart in the wreckage, the film left me feeling somewhat unfulfilled.

After the Hunt takes place in Yale’s philosophy department, where Alma (Roberts) is eyeing up tenure alongside her colleague Hank (Garfield).

At a dinner party, they’re both nakedly hungry for it but if only one is to be selected, perhaps it will

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