Mysterious events surround two travelers as they make their way across a remote American landscape. On the surface all seems normal, but what appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets.
30 August 1979, Camarillo, California, USA
1 May 1952, Dolton, Illinois, USA
10 April 1990, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, UK
28 January 1954, Burnt Hills, New York, USA
27 January 1970, California, USA
15 February 1969
January 02, 2018
The Strange Ones is a solid movie on first watch that becomes a seriously good movie on second watch. Maybe that's a poor framework for an endorsement, but the film is more than the shock of its climax.
March 16, 2017
Despite the game efforts of its lead actors, this indie road-movie drama goes nowhere - slowly.
March 14, 2017
The journey there is compelling enough to make it worth the investment.
December 07, 2017
However nuanced and artful, the nightmarish unease is laid on so thick that, in combination with the cryptic narrative, it gradually turns to murk.
January 04, 2018
Secrets curl with thick dread around a man and boy on the run from a dark past in this elliptical and mysterious road movie.
December 26, 2017
Tediously slow, perversely out-of-step with the zeitgeist in the sexual relationship it suggests
November 10, 2017
Mood prevails over narrative momentum in this elliptical drama that's admirable for its vision even as it keeps its characters at a frustrating emotional distance.
December 31, 2017
The film's mixture of sensationalism and self-conscious artiness is experimentally disingenuous at best.
December 31, 2017
As The Strange Ones drags and drags it certainly becomes more and more strange, but concurrently interest wanes and wanes
June 23, 2017
As with all great films, it takes an angle that we may have never thought of before, and one we may not soon forget.
October 19, 2017
It's an artful, boundary-pushing debut from Radcliffe and Wolkstein, with breakthrough performances from Freedson-Jackson, and Pettyfer, perhaps signaling a new direction in his career.
January 03, 2018
"Ones" isn't much of a puzzle, often too laborious to inspire deep consideration, missing a fundamental screen energy that could help with all the layer-peeling going on.
