{"id":102412,"date":"2025-08-30T04:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/102412\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T04:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:33:07","slug":"reviews-and-reaction-to-julia-roberts-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/102412\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews And Reaction To Julia Roberts Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAmazon MGM Studios and Luca Guadagnino<\/a>\u2019s psychological drama-thriller\u00a0After the Hunt<\/a> is launching today at the Venice<\/a> Festival and it\u2019s a timely subject.<\/p>\n

\n\tJulia Roberts leads the cast as a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light. Michael Stulbarg and Chlo\u00eb Sevigny also star in the film, which touches on themes of cancel culture, the MeToo movement and free speech.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe critics are starting to have their say on the movie and responses so far have been decidedly mixed. Roberts however comes in for consistent praise.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline was among those to laud Roberts and connect with the film: \u201cThough its conversations about tenure can be a chore, its presentation of the modern campus as the Somme \u2014 in terms of the battleground for progressive politics \u2014 does strike a very timely chord. It\u2019s also\u00a0Julia Roberts<\/a>\u2019 best work in a long, long time, a superb feat of casting that genuinely sends shivers and may well bury that old America\u2019s Sweetheart image for good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe UK\u2019s Daily Telegraph gives the film five stars out of five, calling it a \u201cdevilish cancel culture thriller\u201d and proclaiming that Julia Roberts is \u201cback to her best\u201d. <\/p>\n

\n\tTo read the Times of London\u2019s review you\u2019ll need a subscription but the paper loudly claims: \u201cJulia Roberts will win an Oscar for this MeToo story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Playlist gave the movie a C+ score, noting: \u201cThe film\u2019s preoccupations lie not as much with existential questions of morality but with more primitive matters of yearning. As a study of the former, Guadagnino\u2019s drama feels lacking, but if seen as a musing on the latter, it opens up as an imperfect but still fascinating read.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Guardian wasn\u2019t a fan, giving the film two stars and calling it a \u201cmuddled campus accusation drama\u201d: \u201cLuca Guadagnino\u2019s latest is clenched in its own sense of relevance, as a desire to find complexity in a scandal at Yale becomes a noncommittal jumble of ideas\u2026Guadagnino misfires with this bafflingly overlong, overwrought #MeToo campus accusation drama.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Film Stage also dings the movie, calling it \u201cregressive and unimaginative\u201d: \u201cAfter the Hunt\u00a0aims to tackle our so-called cancel culture, but wrestling with that weighty topic isn\u2019t the same as meaningfully reckoning with it; if there\u2019s anything genuinely uncomfortable about Guadagnino\u2019s film, it\u2019s not button-pushing issues but the reactionary way it squanders them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe South China Morning Post gives the movie 2.5\/5 stars, calling it \u201cmuddled\u201d: \u201cWhile Julia Roberts shines in After the Hunt, which explores the chaos of a sexual assault case, the real crux of the story remains unclear.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDecider also struggled with the film, saying \u201cit might be too smart for its own good\u201d: \u201cThe film moves somewhat languidly as it goes through the necessary motions of the preliminary stages of dealing with the allegations. Dialogue between the characters carries an aura of predetermination, as all participants understand the roles they will play in the upcoming hubbub. Add to that a feeling of suffocating claustrophobia from the sparse set design and the chilly color palette, a notable reversal from the usually lush stylings of Guadagnino, and\u00a0After the Hunt\u00a0can feel a bit like a gussied-up potboiler.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by screenwriter Nora Garrett, the movie follows in the wake of ever-busy Italian director Guardagnino\u2019s sports romance\u00a0Challengers, starring Zendaya, Josh O\u2019Connor and Mike Faist, and\u00a0Queer,\u00a0starring Daniel Craig.<\/p>\n

\n\tProducers on\u00a0After the Hunt\u00a0are Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum for Imagine Entertainment and\u00a0Call Me By Your Name\u00a0Oscar nominee Guadagnino under his Frenesy banner. Garrett also exec produces along with Imagine\u2019s Karen Lunder.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe feature\u00a0launches October 10<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios and Luca Guadagnino\u2019s psychological drama-thriller\u00a0After the Hunt is launching today at the Venice Festival and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49423,96,26396,18737,2839,56,54,55,10989,10306],"class_list":["post-102412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-after-the-hunt","tag-entertainment","tag-julia-roberts","tag-luca-guadagnino","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-venice","tag-venice-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}