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Julia Roberts has entered the Oscar hunt. This is going to be fun.  The Washington Post Venice Film Festival: Julia Roberts Courts Controversy With ‘After the Hunt’  The New York Times Julia Roberts’ latest movie is stirring controversy. She argues that’s a good thing  Yahoo News UK After the Hunt review — Julia Roberts will win an Oscar for this MeToo story  The Times …

Let’s not bury the lede: “After the Hunt” gives Julia Roberts her best film role in at least 20 years. That’s both a big statement — two decades is a long time by any standard, an eternity in movie-star years — and fainter praise than it should be for a star of Roberts’ stature. In Luca Guadagnino‘s charged, sure-to-be-debate-stirring moral …

Julia Roberts made her Venice Film Festival debut on Friday with Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, which just received a six-minute ovation following its world premiere. Roberts plays a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), and a dark secret …

Julia Roberts got emotional as her new movie, “After the Hunt” — Luca Guadagnino’s drama in which she plays a troubled professor — wowed Venice on Friday night. The Amazon MGM Studios release premiered on the Lido to a six-minute standing ovation. As the clapping continued, Roberts wiped away tears, blew kisses to the crowd and hugged her director and co-stars …

Amazon MGM Studios and Luca Guadagnino’s psychological drama-thriller After the Hunt is launching today at the Venice Festival and it’s a timely subject. Julia Roberts leads the cast as a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), and a dark secret …

Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” a drama of sexual accusation and academic scheming set within the rarified cloisters of Yale University, is a movie that has some very good acting, an impressively dark and foreboding visual palette, and a psychologically tense atmosphere of mystery and suspense. It’s a movie that taps into current questions of social justice and sexual morality, …

Julia Roberts defended her new film “After the Hunt” at a heated Venice Film Festival press conference, where the star was questioned about the movie’s statements surrounding the #MeToo movement and cancel culture. In the thriller, set in the world of higher education, Roberts as a beloved college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when her …

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Julia Roberts is making her Venice Film Festival debut with the psychosexual drama “After the Hunt,” which premieres Friday evening. The film is set in the world of higher education and stars Roberts as a beloved professor whose mentee, played by “The Bear’s” Ayo Edebiri, accuses her friend and colleague (Andrew Garfield) of crossing the line. …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police dispatcher Julia Jordan accidentally added a dash of celebrity gossip to her public service this week when she shared “Taylor Swift is engaged” over a hot microphone. That appears to be how officers in the Lansing, Michigan, area learned about the superstar singer’s betrothal to Kansas City Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce. The …

The red carpet has been rolled out in front of the Lido’s sparkling white, freshly renovated Palazzo del Cinema, where boatloads of stars will soon be prancing for paparazzi and screaming fans when the Venice Film Festival kicks off Wednesday. This year’s 82nd edition is set to be the most high-wattage celebration of cinema on the Lido in recent memory, …