Is anyone banging out films with the speed and tenacity of Luca Guadagnino? The director seems to have given up sleeping, somehow squeezing in a trio of toxic, tempestuous love stories — Bones And All , Challengers and Queer — in about as many years. His latest certainly has some of the hallmarks of a Guadagnino joint (illicit passion, slippery morality, Michael Stuhlbarg stealing scenes). But at the same time, campus thriller After The Hunt , which seems to condemn both abuses of power and the excesses of efforts to expose them, feels colder, more cynical and subdued than his most recent films. It’s absorbing thanks to some strong performances, but rather let down by a script that isn’t as transgressive as it seems to think it is.

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