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The Hunt

2020

Craig Zobel

Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall ...

5.9

11,355

Thriller. Action. Horror. Comedy The film follows a group of ‘rednecks’ who are captured and hunted for sport by rich, liberal elites. An adaptation of Richard Connell's 1924 classic about 12 american strangers in a clearing, rudderless and unaware that they're being, literally, hunted for sport by one-percent elitist.

	Author	Review
United States	Scott Collura IGN	"The filmmakers know how to balance the inane fun of The Hunt’s crazy premise with a smart, stinging commentary about the world we live in."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"[An] exceedingly violent, conspiratorially charged and guiltily engaging action melodrama"	POS
United States	Darren Franich Entertainment Weekly	"It’s a great survival thriller, and a disappointing political comedy	NEU
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"[An] ugly, divisive, useless garbage without an ounce of wit, intellect or even camp (...) Rating: 0 (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"An intense, over-the-top satire of partisan politics taken to its most dangerous extreme, Craig Zobel's controversial thriller delivers the excitement, if not necessarily the deeper social critique"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Despite the provocative premise (...) the movie is basically easy jokes and ho-hum splatter"	NEG
United States	William Bibbiani The Wrap	"A raucous, funny, ultraviolent exploitation thriller (...) Gilpin’s performance is nothing less than instantly iconic"	POS
United Kingdom	Joshua Rothkopf Empire	"In the future, we’ll have more movies about today’s divide — they may even be dark comedies like this one. Hopefully, though, they’ll cut much deeper (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	The Hunt” is definitely controversial (...) Timely although not as timeless as, say, 'Dr. Strangelove,' 'The Hunt' will make you laugh (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"'The Hunt' only works when it’s a mediocre shoot-‘em-up, but although Zobel construct a few diverting fight sequences, it’s hard to muster up much enthusiasm when hardly anyone on screen is particularly interesting."	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[It] aspires to be the movie that America needs right now (...) one of the most unsanitized and diabolical Hollywood thrillers to come along in ages"	POS
United States	Katie Rife AV Club	"For all the hype and free publicity, in the end The Hunt is simply one of those whiz-bang genre flicks where you can absolutely fast-forward through the dialogue scenes"	NEU
United States	Sam Adams Slate	"'The Hunt' is too dumb to justify Trump’s outrage"	NEG
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"'The Hunt‘s' creators have delivered something that doesn’t quite gel as a satire but excels as an exploitation flick (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Monica Castillo The New York Times	"'The Hunt' is filled with more memes than plot (...) Betty Gilpin deserves better and so do we (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Adrian Horton The Guardian	"[It offers] boilerplate B-movie schlock (...) Deaths are often swift and occasionally surprising; the characters are one-line stereotypes (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"[A] damp squib (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	John Serba Decider	"[It] is entertaining but despairing"	NEU
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"Appalling, irresponsible, reprehensible – and darn good fun (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Brian Lloyd entertainment.ie	"'The Hunt' isn't based in reality, but it's making fun of it in a way that's desperately needed. That alone means that it's worth seeking out (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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