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The Python Hunt

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In an attempt to save the threatened ecosystem, the Florida government hosts an annual competition to remove invasive pythons from the Everglades. For ten grueling nights, python-mania overtakes the 'glades as an eclectic group of amateur hunters contends with unforgiving terrain, aggressive nocturnal creatures and their own desires and demons that push them into the swamp, searching for slithering glory.

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Monica Castillo AV Club 5d
The Python Hunt is just as much a love letter to this strange 10-day event as it is to the Floridians who give the state its characters and the visitors who keep coming back year after year hoping to catch a big snake. Go to Full Review Matt Zoller Seitz RogerEbert.com May 10
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The movie is a lot of fun and masters a pleasingly detached yet sardonic tone early on, but unfortunately, it doesn’t have a lot more to offer after that, aside from a growing human menagerie of admittedly lively characters... Go to Full Review Alissa Wilkinson New York Times May 8
Suddenly the hunt takes on a strange extra meaning. It’s the sort of moment that would feel ham-fisted in a fiction film script, but in a nonfiction film, it’s gold. Sometimes, reality beats anything you could imagine. Go to Full Review Stephen Silver The SS Ben Hecht 3d
Beyond the characters, it’s just a visually gorgeous documentary, giving this odd American place its due. Go to Full Review Kyle Logan ScreenAnarchy 5d
Equal parts eulogy, poetry, and rallying cry for the Everglades. Go to Full Review Tanner Gordon Spectrum Culture May 12
The Python Hunt uses its subject mostly as a means to an end, to arrive at answers that have little to do with snakes and much more to do with the human soul. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Alex G. @alexthecritic 5d The Python Hunt plays like a History Channel reality series disguised as a documentary, complete with competitive snake-count graphics and larger-than-life swamp personalities. Beneath all the swamp-hunting spectacle though is an unexpectedly interesting layer of ethical and moral questions about conservation, competition, and where the line between environmental responsibility and entertainment starts to blur. See more Moody C @MoodyC May 12 A look into Florida state sponsored killing of pythons to control specie population. While interesting & full of real life characters in this doc, director does not really have any stance on matter so somewat pointless. Short & sweet, though. See more Stephen C @bob25009 May 8 Real footage in 1 hour and 31 minutes. See more Read all reviews
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Xander Robin

Director

Lance Oppenheim

Producer

Lauren Cioffi

Producer

Melissa Oppenheim

Producer

Xander Robin

Producer

Gillian Brown

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Synopsis In an attempt to save the threatened ecosystem, the Florida government hosts an annual competition to remove invasive pythons from the Everglades. For ten grueling nights, python-mania overtakes the 'glades as an eclectic group of amateur hunters contends with unforgiving terrain, aggressive nocturnal creatures and their own desires and demons that push them into the swamp, searching for slithering glory.
Director
Xander Robin
Producer
Lance Oppenheim, Lauren Cioffi, Melissa Oppenheim, Xander Robin
Distributor
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Production Co
Artist's Equity
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 8, 2026, Limited
Runtime
1h 31m