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Unlike the short feature film on which this film is based, this full length feature version is an engaging movie with the right dose of controversy and ambi...
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Dec 26, 2017 · The 2017 movie going year comes to an end, so here's my list of the TOP 10 BEST MOVIES OF 2017! ...more.
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- Jeremy Jahns
Jan 5, 2018 · The problem is that the movie telegraphs the gist of what it’s about to reveal pretty early on, and by the time it finally confirms your suspicions (less than 90 minutes later—this is a lean film) you might look back and wish they’d spent less energy on perfecting their ambitious and nimble yet relaxed and somewhat open-ended storytelling ...
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As the title suggests, it’s very strange. From the filmmaking team of Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein, The Strange Ones is a puzzle of a film. You can solve it – either immediately or gradually. But you get the sense, sometimes, that every aspect of it is designed not to fit together quite right. It’s dreamlike in its construction and pre...
Sam (James Freedson-Jackson) has somehow ended up in the passenger seat of a car driven by Nick (Alex Pettyfer). That much, at least, you can figure out for yourself. Sam’s a teenager; slack-jawed not with awe or idiocy, but a kind of meanness – an anger, a frustration. Nick’s a rugged twenty-something; handsome and charismatic, but vaguely siniste...
The story is told nonlinearly, but the through-line is clear enough. It’s just that everything seems slightly off-kilter. From the start, it’s clear that the leads, who present themselves as brothers, have an uneasy, unnatural relationship. The environment they navigate is familiar, but eerily depopulated. Beautiful, too, in the way that dying thin...
It’s difficult to say. I admire a lot of what it attempts to accomplish, even if it isn’t entirely successful. I certainly felt something while watching it – a chill that settled across my shoulders and the back of my neck; a stirring that wound up into my stomach and coiled there like a reptile. I don’t know if that’s to the film’s credit or its d...
Less noteworthy, but then again the film asks less of them. Emily Althaus, from Orange is the New Black, plays a motel manager. Gene Jones plays an older man who runs a work camp for delinquent boys. The leads – again, particularly Freedson-Jackson – have an easy rapport with them. There’s probably a film to be made about every combination. That’s ...
Unsettling and unusual, but predictable and thin, The Strange Ones is worth watching mostly because it suggests the possibility of a fine filmmaking career. But it lingers, too, for whatever reason. It runs less than 90 minutes; as lean as a feature film gets. I hope the next one is longer.
- Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein
- Christopher Radcliff
- January 5, 2018
The Strange Ones: Directed by Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein. With Alex Pettyfer, James Freedson-Jackson, Emily Althaus, Gene Jones. Mysterious events surround two travelers as they make their way across a remote American landscape.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein
- 2018-01-05
The Strange Ones is a 2017 American thriller drama film directed by Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein, and written by Christopher Radcliff. It is a feature-length adaptation of a short film directed by Radcliff and Wolkstein in 2011.
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That's what watching the mega-weird murder mystery drama "The Strange Ones" conspired to do to me. The only remotely redeeming aspects to recommend here is the spooky score by a pair of killer flutists and the performance of the great character actor Gene Jones.
