Fresh
You leave The Hunt unsettled in the best sense. Its images and implications are likely to stay in your head a long time.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Overview
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
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The Hunt's inexorability feels derived more from thematic or ideological concerns than any organic necessity.
James Adams, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt conveys the sinister swirl of persecution more vividly than any film I can remember.
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
Fresh
Through it all, we see an idyllic-looking community, where glorious fall colors fade into twinkling December snow - a pretty frame for a terrifying story of a modern-day witch hunt.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
It's hard to watch. It should be seen.
Tom Long, Detroit News
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