She plays Alma Imhoff, a philosophy professor at Yale, who lives in one of those luxurious houses you only ever see in movies. Aiming to become tenured, she spends her days debating the finer points of Kierkegaard and Hegel, with her acolytes, including flirty fellow academic Hank (Andrew Garfield) and earnest PhD student Maggie (The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri).
When Alma confronts Hank, he claims it all stems from a discovery he made about Maggie, that she plagiarised her dissertation. With her parents billionaire donors to the university, Maggie comes from a background of wealth and entitlement. That she is also Black adds to the complex dynamic, with Maggie operating in a world largely dominated by straight white cis men.
View oEmbed on the source websiteDirecting this is Luca Guadagnino, the Italian filmmaker behind the more plainly enjoyable Call Me by Your Name (which featured Stuhlbarg) and Challengers. But After the Hunt feels like a muddled film that gets away from him, too often filled with characters mired in academic debates about morals and ethics that will likely go over most viewers’ heads, unless you happen to be a philosophy graduate.
It’s not the only time the director borrows from other, better works. Todd Field’s cancel culture tale Tár, set in the similarly cloistered world of classical music, tackled the subject with much greater complexity. And then, Justine Triet’s Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall, with its prickly use of loud music interrupting a conversation, gets a nod, in a grating dinner scene involving Maggie, Fredrik and Alma.
After the Hunt arrives in UK cinemas on 20th October 2025.
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