Vulture first reviewed After the Hunt when it premiered at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2025. We are republishing the review now that it’s playing at the New York Film Festival.

It is surely no coincidence that the credits for Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt are rendered in white Windsor Light Condensed letters over a black background, a.k.a. the “Woody Allen font,” while soft-jazz music plays on the soundtrack. This is how Allen’s credits have looked for decades; even the way the cast and crew’s names have been grouped and presented here is distinctly Allen-esque, making the allusion clearer. Is it an in-joke? A provocation? Guadagnino’s film seems to have been designed in a lab to tweak all our various sensitivities around cancel culture, so it really c

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