After The Hunt (2025)

When a colleague (Andrew Garfield) is accused of a sexual assault by a PhD student (Ayo Edebiri), a professor (Julia Roberts) of philosophy at Yale university is pushed into the conflict with each of them expecting her to stand by them. Directed by Luca Guadagnino (CHALLENGERS). Unfairly dismissed by critics as "muddled" or "unfocused", I found the film challenging and complex and reveled in its ambiguity. The film doesn't offer up any closure, any answers and at the film's end, it's cryptic as to the characters' motivations, actions and perhaps most annoying to most critics and viewers ..... the truth. Despite the movie's plot, it's not about rape. It's about the way we deceive others and ourselves, how we see in people what we want to see in them, how we're not honest about the monsters we have inside us, how we always have a choice even when we say we don't. Julia Roberts does her best work in 12 years (AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY) and she gets solid support from Garfield, Edebiri (who we're never quite sure about), Chloe Sevigny and especially Michael Stuhlbarg as Roberts' husband.