After the Hunt, Starring Julia Roberts, Doesn’t Shoot Straight

But there are some worthy entrails

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After the Hunt, which will be released in theatres on October 10, has already received many glowing reviews. I saw it as the opening night film of the New York Film Festival at Lincoln center, now in its 63rd year. My take on this Julia Roberts showcase is less than stellar, although no fault of the actress.

Does every movie and series have to have someone flinging a phone? No matter how serious or how comedic a situation is, there always seems to be someone shooting a phone across a room, from a car, into a body of water, or out a window. I wish I had started making a list of these phone jettisons seven or eight years back. I’m certain my count would number somewhere near four digits.

I have never thrown my phone and have never even witnessed any of my friends or family members show their emotions by a violent phone toss; Androids and iPhones are just too expensive to be treated like pillows.

In After the Hunt, the smartphone thrower is Julia Roberts as an esteemed Yale philosophy professor.

This is a cryptic “Me-Too” movie, with Roberts, a popular tenure-track educator, caught between a fellow professor (Andrew Garfield) and a PhD student (Ayo Edebiri), the daughter of major…