The Strays (2023)

The Strays (2023). The Strays: Directed by Nathaniel Martello-White. With Ashley Madekwe, Bukky Bakray, Jorden Myrie, Samuel Paul Small. A Black woman's meticulously crafted life of privilege starts to unravel when two strangers show up in her quaint suburban town.

“Seriously – HOW did this get made?!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNetflix obviously have a habit of churning out pulpy thrillers, and Iu0026#39;ve watched (or at least tried to watch) almost all of them, and I can safely say, of all of them, hands down – this has the WORST dialogue and performances that border on the hysterical. Itu0026#39;s hard to blame the actors for that, theyu0026#39;re making the best of a VERY bad screenplay – and presumably, incompetent performative direction.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eVisually itu0026#39;s decent. That was obviously the priority for the filmmaker. The only priority. Itu0026#39;s the only thing that makes sense.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI really canu0026#39;t fathom how this got made. Whou0026#39;s this guy sleeping with at Netflix to get this off the ground ahead of so many blacklist scripts? They must be pretty high up or have a lot to hide because WOW. Rubbish.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOnly given 2 rather than 1 because I did honestly laugh more than once in the opening ten minutes at the hackneyed dialogue.”