Overview
- Luca Guadagnino’s film, starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield, opened wide in the U.S. on Oct. 17 after a limited Oct. 10 debut.
- Critics consistently single out Roberts’ performance and the tense Trent Reznor–Atticus Ross score, while calling Nora Garrett’s debut screenplay provocative yet uneven.
- Set at a university resembling Yale, the story centers on a student’s allegation against a professor and intentionally leaves the incident’s specifics unresolved.
- Coverage frames the movie as a post-#MeToo examination of power, race, privilege and optics on campus rather than a clear moral verdict.
- The film is in theaters only; Amazon MGM has not announced a Prime Video date, though a streaming window is expected after its theatrical run.