After the Hunt (2025) review

Philosophy professor Alma Imhoff (Julia Roberts), who's hoping to get tenure at Yale University, finds herself trapped in a terrible situation where her protégé Maggie Resnick (Ayo Edebiri) accuses her fancy-free colleague Hank Gibson (Andrew Garfield) of "assault," and it becomes more tense once Hank is fired and Maggie chastises Alma for not "supporting women."  While it attempts to tap into ideological differences between Gen Z and older generations regarding such topics as "victimhood" and "entitlement" - the younger folk tend to not recognize that people cannot be neatly divided into "angels" and "demons" and that many of their artistic heroes were not perfect humans - it makes numerous mistakes as it takes its good old time reaching a conclusion, like the way Hank "reveals" himself to be a predator or the way it requires a trip to the hospital for Alma to confess to her psychiatrist husband Frederik (Michael Stuhlbarg) a secret from her own past.  The movie is insistent on revealing how "smart" it is with the constant name-dropping, and Alma's supposedly sharp, so why did she swipe scripts from co-worker Dr. Kim Sayers (Chloë Sevigny) when there are safer routes she could have taken to procure controlled substances for herself?  And why would Maggie plagiarize a relatively well-known Italian academic instead of someone less easily traceable?  Out of all these characters, the only one worth pitying is Frederik, who's loyal, a talented cook and loves the wrong woman.