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GenreFeature film
RatedR
Runtime2 hr 18 mins
ReleasedOctober 10, 2025
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorLuca Guadagnino
StarringJulia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield
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After the Hunt (2025)
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| After the Hunt's Details | |
| Genre | Feature film |
| Rated | R |
| Released | 08/29/2025 (Venice); 10/10/2025 (United States) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 2 hr 18 mins |
| Budget | $70–80M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Country | Italy, United States |
| Language | English |
| After the Hunt's Interests | |
| General | Faculty dinner parties, tenure reviews, seminar rooms, philosophy debates, uncomfortable silences. |
| Music | Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross |
| Movies | Doubt (2008). Another story where the hardest part is deciding what you believe. |
| Television | The Chair. Campus politics, played for laughs instead. |
| Heroes | Alma Imhoff. Brilliant in the lecture hall, a lot less sure outside it. |
| After the Hunt's Crew | |
| Director | Luca Guadagnino |
| Writers | Nora Garrett |
| Producers | Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody, Allan Mandelbaum, Luca Guadagnino |
| Cinematography | Malik Hassan Sayeed |
| Music | Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross |
| Edited By | Marco Costa |
| Production | Imagine Entertainment, Frenesy Film Company, Potboiler |
| Distributed By | Amazon MGM Studios (United States and Canada), Sony Pictures Releasing International (International) |
Julia Roberts deserved a braver movie than After the Hunt. She plays Alma, a Yale philosophy professor up for tenure, with a star PhD student (Ayo Edebiri), a close friend down the hall (Andrew Garfield) and a husband at home (Michael Stuhlbarg). Then comes a serious accusation on a university campus, and Alma is caught between people she cares about while her tenure hangs in the balance. Roberts is superb, tightly wound and hard to read, and she holds the movie together while the script keeps losing its grip. Edebiri and Garfield do what they can with characters the writing never brings into focus. Luca Guadagnino shoots it with real craft, then ducks the hard calls he spent 138 minutes setting up. Opening crowds gave it a C-minus CinemaScore, and it made $9.44 million worldwide on a reported budget of $70 to 80 million. A 4.9 because the acting is sharp and the movie isn’t. $44.83 says you and whoever you watch it with land on opposite sides by the credits, and neither of you budges.
What works: Julia Roberts gives one of her best performances in years, and Guadagnino stages the tense conversations with real craft.
What doesn’t: It raises big questions and then backs away from all of them, and at 138 minutes the dodging gets tiring.
Who it’s for: Julia Roberts fans and anyone who likes a talky campus drama that starts arguments rather than settling them.
Spoilers
An epilogue jumps ahead several years: Alma has landed on her feet as a dean, and she and Maggie meet one more time at a diner to talk about how their lives turned out. Then Guadagnino himself calls cut from off-screen.
Alma Imhoff (Julia Roberts) is a respected philosophy professor at Yale, back from medical leave and up for tenure. At home there is her husband Frederik (Michael Stuhlbarg). At work there is her close friend and fellow professor Hank Gibson (Andrew Garfield), also up for tenure, and her star PhD student, Maggie Resnick (Ayo Edebiri). After a dinner party at Alma's place, Maggie comes to her with a serious accusation against Hank. Hank denies it. Now Alma is stuck in the middle, with her career and her friendships on the line. Luca Guadagnino directs. One hundred thirty-nine minutes, nobody gets off easy.
Anyone who likes a movie that keeps arguing with you on the ride home.
| Julia Roberts | Alma Imhoff |
| Ayo Edebiri | Margaret "Maggie" Resnick |
| Andrew Garfield | Henrik "Hank" Gibson |
| Michael Stuhlbarg | Frederik Mendelssohn |
| Chloë Sevigny | Dr. Kim Sayers |
| Thaddea Graham | Katie |
| David Leiber | Dean RJ Thomas |
| Lío Mehiel | Alex |
| Will Price | Arthur |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 19 October 2026 DataBot +520 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $9.4M; Domestic box office $3.3M; Opening weekend $159K; Profit / loss (est.) -$107.8M; Rotten Tomatoes 36%; CinemaScore C−; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 36% (233 reviews); Metacritic 52 / 100; Rotten Tomatoes audience 39% (250+ verified ratings); CinemaScore C−; IMDb users 5.7 / 10 (25,167 votes); movie.guru score 2.6.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 19 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.