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The Strange Ones is based on a 2011 short film of the same name co-directed by Wolkstein and Radcliffe. The short centers on a man and young boy who arouse suspicion from others at a roadside motel. It features David Call, Tobias Campbell (who appears in the full-length film), and Merritt Wever.
Jan 5, 2018 · This is a primordial story filled with dreamlike symbols from humanity's past—roads, forests, caves, clouds, the sun—and its characters move through it in the manner of a mid-century American short story, the kind where you're not sure how literally you're supposed to take anything.
Jan 5, 2018 · Two brothers (Alex Pettyfer and James Freedson-Jackson) are running from something — and/or running to something — in this stylish but muddled indie thriller.
Jan 4, 2018 · Is there anything “strange” anymore about lurid attachments or explosive violence disrupting the placid surface of middle-class life, high or low? Recent generations of art-house audiences have reveled in this theme since Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (1997) and have made the works of Yorgos Lanthimos, from Dogtooth (2009) to The Killing ...
Jan 8, 2018 · Unsettling and unusual, but predictable and thin, The Strange Ones is worth watching mostly because it suggests the possibility of a fine filmmaking career. Read the review and find out what we rated it.
- Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein
- Christopher Radcliff
- January 5, 2018
Jan 4, 2018 · The film’s titular “strange ones” are young Sam (played to perfection by James Freedson-Jackson, a star in the making who recently won the fest’s Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance) and...
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Jan 4, 2018 · “The Strange Ones” is a mysterious puzzle box of a film, anchored by a quietly mesmerizing performance by James Freedson-Jackson as a young boy on the road with an older companion.
