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The Strays
MEANRANK
46/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 27, highest is Metacritic critics on 58. Critics average 56, everyone else 44.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A Black woman has meticulously constructed a perfect life in an affluent, predominantly white suburb, distancing herself from her past. Her carefully curated world begins to fracture when two strangers who look eerily familiar appear in her town. Their presence suggests that the life she left behind is catching up to her, threatening to expose the secrets she has worked so hard to conceal.
Details
- Director
- Nathaniel Martello-White
- Writer
- Nathaniel Martello-White
- Studio
- Air Street Films, The Bureau
- Released
- 17 February 2023
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rated
- R
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