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- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 57 m
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 57 m
Summary Two men who meet on a plane and strike up a conversation that turns into friendship. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour and crime, this is a dream come true.
Directed By: Thomas M. Wright
Written By: Kate Kyriacou, Thomas M. Wright
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 57 m
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 57 m
The Stranger
74
6.6
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Summary Two men who meet on a plane and strike up a conversation that turns into friendship. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour and crime, this is a dream come true.
Directed By: Thomas M. Wright
Written By: Kate Kyriacou, Thomas M. Wright
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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90% Positive
9 Reviews
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10% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
74
90% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
10% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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The Stranger avoids both neat explanations and contrived ambiguity, when narrative pieces are shuffling around to confuse audiences.
What makes The Stranger work is how this all creates an experience that feels as though the two men have become almost doomed to a life where they will aimlessly wander in what feels like an Australian purgatory. Whether they ever manage to escape and uncover some sort of closure is irrelevant to the growing rot that threatens to consume their souls no matter what they do.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 User Ratings
6.6
62% Positive
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
31% Mixed
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7% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 User Ratings
6.6
62% Positive
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
31% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
7% Negative
2 Ratings
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A dark and atmospheric Aussie crime drama that is driven by two fantastic performances from it's leads Edgerton & Harris.
One of the best Australian movies in recent years.
Kudos to Sean Harris for pulling off one of the best Aussie accents by a non-Australian to be heard in movies.
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The Stranger confirms that Wright has arrived, even if his treatment sometimes feels more oblique and self-consciously arty than the material demands.
Wright crafts a hyper-elaborate set-up and delicate drip-feed of information which make spoilers an equal crime, but The Stranger is more of a felt experience than a traditional policier; it’s all about the hunt, not the crime.
Assembled with seemingly deliberate disjointed editing that scrambles the time line, and shot through with unsettling shock cuts backed by Oliver Coates discordant, droning minimalist score, The Stranger definitely feels like an elevated genre exercise — more challenging than the average crime drama but also more interesting.
This is a curious, slightly underwhelming offering. Even so, falling flat as a result of being understated to a fault is a promising event in a genre dominated by obvious signposting, and Wright is certainly one to watch for the future.
The film finds a little verve; Edgerton is put through the imagined ringer in a handful of unnerving dream sequences, and a motif featuring the mountainous crime scene is interesting (until it isn’t). But for all of the interesting twists and turns, as the story comes to its smoky conclusion, one can’t imagine who in the audience will make it to the payoff.
Este thriller policiaco es de aquellos que juegan con la paciencia del espectador, aunque para bien, con un desarrollo pausado aunque intrigante, con secuencias casi silenciosas y un final difícil de predecir que deja más preguntas que respuestas.
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Australian origin detective film made in 2022. The movie is too heavy. There is a constant air of tension, but no tension. There is a lot of dialogue. But the result is questionable.
A man meets another man on the bus. This acquaintance is doing some illegal business. The other is asking for help from it. Then, over time, the man rises in these jobs. Over time, the place of duty of the man he met on the bus changes. This is meeting higher men. But the man has a secret. A child was kidnapped in the past and was never found again. This man has also been prosecuted as a suspect. But he denied it and there is no evidence. That's why he had to be released. Will this event come before him in the criminal organization?
The movie has sexual implications, no nudity.
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'The Stranger' lives up to its title by leaving the two protagonists as that: two complete strangers. Director and screenwriter Thomas M. Wright sure knows how to slowly build this true crime story, but, in the end, it feels like we've barely come to know these people. The disjointed execution is also kind of problematic; the blurring between reality and nightmares is disquieting, but it leads to nothing. Thankfully, Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris' acting is enough to keep you watching, although the end doesn't feel climatic at all. Either way, you have to appreciate the unconventional approach Wright and his team took.
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If you like Australians mumbling and Sean Harris saying "Nothing" boy do I have something to show you.
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I wanted to like this one more than I did. When it comes down to it, this movie felt like a shallow imitation of what would make for a good suspenseful film rather than actually being a good suspenseful film. Slow plot, bad pacing, and an emotional disconnection that makes it so you honestly don't care about what happens or how it plays out.
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Production Company
Anonymous Content,
Blue-Tongue Films,
Rocket Science,
See-Saw Films
Release Date Oct 19, 2022
Duration 1 h 57 m
Rating TV-MA
Awards
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
• 2 Wins & 11 Nominations
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
• 5 Wins & 6 Nominations
AACTA International Awards
• 2 Nominations
