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Julia Roberts’ anti-woke film feels hopelessly dated in Trump’s America

Michelle Goldberg Writer and columnist October 16, 2025 — 3.30pm

This article contains spoilers.

After the Hunt , Luca Guadagnino’s psychological thriller about the fallout from the #MeToo movement, has been in theatres for only a few days, but it already feels dated. It’s a memento of the micro-era, towards the exhausted end of Joe Biden’s presidency, when the backlash against self-righteous progressivism was cresting, and taking on sanctimonious college students seemed, at least in some circles, like a brave provocation.

Now, at a moment of ferocious Trump government repression of the campus left, After the Hunt is a bit of a silly anachronism. It’s interesting mostly f

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