As an ambitious and miserable Yale philosophy professor, Julia Roberts paces Luca Guadagnino’s pretend-provocative noir “After the Hunt” in a prepster uniform of monogrammed tote bag and immaculate white slacks. Alma is secretly sick. Yet, when she kneels in a campus stall to puke, those white pants remain fastidiously unsullied. The idea is that Alma has practice keeping her image clean.

She’ll need it. A student named Maggie (Ayo Edebiri) has accused Alma’s fellow teacher and favorite drinking buddy, Hank (Andrew Garfield), of sexual assault. Hank counters that he’d followed Maggie home from a party because he caught her cheating on her thesis about performative virtue signaling. Is Hank a clichéd creep or is Maggie a middling talent destroying her supervisor before he destroys her? The

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