Search results
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 · 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 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...
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 22, 2018 · A provoking film that resonates long after the credits have rolled, The Strange Ones is an understated debut, with just enough external beauty and internal unease to keep us hopeful for their cinematic future.
- Kristy Strouse
Dec 31, 2017 · Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein’s The Strange Ones is a work of stylistic doodling in search of a reason to exist. The film is impressive on its terms, reveling in innuendo and unease—a mood that the filmmakers confidently sustain.
People also ask
What's so special about 'the Strange Ones'?
Is 'the Strange Ones' a good film?
Is the Strange Ones creepy?
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.
