NYFF Review: Julia Roberts Is Icy Ivy League Brilliance in Luca Guadagnino's 'After the Hunt'
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Call Me By Your Name auteur Luca Guadagnino is back at his blessed, beautiful bullshit (complimentary) with After the Hunt , his grandest Hollywood effort to date as it stars no less than the last of the real movie stars herself, Julia Roberts. Who, it should be said upfront, is giving one of her grandest, darkest, wiliest performances to date here. A sly but serious-minded fable cum thriller about the sexual piccadilloes of the intellectually inclined right in the heightened smackdab center of the #MeToo movement—making it now a period piece, as the film’s last act deftly acknowledges—this is thorniness done the Luca way.
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