I really enjoyed watching The Hunt and I’m grateful that the film was actually released. I understand the worries that people had, but most of the talk surrounding this film that got it canceled was a bit excessive.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2023

There is definitely a cutting satire to be made here... yet the film ends up taking potshots at so many subjects that it just ends up missing its targets. Rather than an impressive trophy kill, the end result is a disappointing flesh wound

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 11, 2022

Craig Zobel’s The Hunt purports to be a satire, but I am unconvinced its makers know precisely what they are satirising.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 7, 2022

The Hunt is a clever, gory good time. In a perverse way, it’s about unity and coming together.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 27, 2022

The idea at the core of “The Hunt” is a worthy one. We could certainly use a clear-eyed reminder of how toxic and sectarian our political discourse has become. I’m just not sure this is the movie to do it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2022

By skewering everyone, deserving or not, the film skewers no one. If you’re going to make a satire promising to anger everyone, you should come with a more insightful script.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | May 20, 2022

The Hunt offers two or three sequences that genuinely impress but too few surprises to extend its novelty for the entire 89-minute runtime.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 21, 2022

despite lofty ambitions, The Hunt is too keen to be embraced by the widest possible audience to land any killer blows to anyone

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2022

Betty Gilpin does such a fantastic job in The Hunt. We don't know a lot about her character (and there is a reason for that). She doesn't speak a lot, but when she does, she will surprise you.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Feb 11, 2022

People relying solely on the trailers or the outraged articles have only a surface-level of the movie. But the movie's not that deep, either.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2021

The Hunt is entertaining but despairing.

Full Review | Jul 27, 2021

While the purpose of the film might be lost, the humor and action is easily found. There is a lot of fun to be had with these idiotic characters (on both sides) and the gruesome, sometimes, shocking deaths they experience.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jun 23, 2021

The film is definitely political. However, it's not quite as black-and-white as pundits want you to believe. Ultimately, I don't think it matters where you fall on the political spectrum; The Hunt is a fun flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 5, 2021

The Hunt is nothing more than a live-action cartoon where [all characters] are painted in such broad strokes that it's impossible to mistake it for anything resembling substantive.

Full Review | Jun 5, 2021

Action and gore revel in blood-soaked splendour...triumphs...thanks to a sharply constructed premise that offers a piercing assessment on the American political divide.

Full Review | Original Score: 15/20 | Apr 1, 2021

THE HUNT is a comedy (with horror elements)... It's a satire, but a satire that you might not be all that comfortable with.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2021

While you'd hope The Hunt is a smart movie that occasionally behaves like a dumb one, the opposite is true.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 28, 2021

As funny and vivid as it is opportunistic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 24, 2021

Empty, pandering, and thoughtless. [...] As far as political comedy is concerned, we get enough low-hanging fruit on social media, and at least some of it makes us laugh.

Full Review | Feb 17, 2021

This gleefully trashy, superficial satire takes shotgun aim at both Democrats and Republicans for their stereotypical assumptions about, and thin-skinned fury at, each other.

Full Review | Feb 2, 2021