NOT EVERYTHING IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE YOU COMFORTABLE.

Yale professor Alma Imhoff (Julia Roberts) finds herself in a bind when a student (Ayo Edebiri) accuses one of her best friends and colleagues (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault.

When Luca Guadagnino made a movie about #metoo and college activism, it was reasonable to expect something provocative. This film gets off to a promising start, depicting generational clashes between smug teachers and privileged, oversensitive students.

It’s a fine cast, but the story leads nowhere, with nothing interesting to say at all.

2025-U.S.-Italy. 139 min. Color. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Cast: Julia Roberts (Alma Imhoff), Ayo Edebiri (Margaret ”Maggie” Resnick), Andrew Garfield (Henrik ”Hank” Gibson), Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloë Sevigny, Thaddea Graham. 

Trivia: Co-produced by Guadagnino. Zendaya was originally set for the part of Maggie, but bowed out.