Julia Roberts shines in the muddled 'After the Hunt'

WSHU | By Aisha Harris,

Linda Holmes

Published October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM EDT

Andrew Garfield as Hank and Julia Roberts as Alma in After the Hunt. — Andrew Garfield as Hank and Julia Roberts as Alma in *After the Hunt*.

In the new movie After The Hunt, Julia Roberts plays a Yale professor who finds herself in a hard place when one of her star students (Ayo Edebiri) makes an allegation against another faculty member (Andrew Garfield). Who’s telling the truth? Who’s the victim? Is there a victim? Directed by Luca Guadagnino (Challengers, Call Me by Your Name) the film poses a lot of questions. But are any of them answered?

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Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.

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