Strangerland

Name: Strangerland
Director: Kim Farrant
Released: 2015

Synopsis

Newly arrived to a remote desert town, Catherine and Matthew are tormented by a suspicion when their two teenage children mysteriously vanish.

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Movie Nation
Best of all is this setting — stark, reddish brown and sun-baked, the sort of place one only goes when every other possibility has been exhausted, and only movie stars could avoid turning instantly tanned and weathered.
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Washington Post
It’s hard to get over the movie’s haunting atmosphere. It may be just another story of kids in peril, but this one’s particularly hard to shake.
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The A.V. Club
Intentionally or not, Farrant and her screenwriters leave a hole at the center of their film.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The film remains stranded in a sort of genre no man’s land.
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The New York Times
The progressive wrinkles...are both the fascination and the frustration of Strangerland, which strains credulity with its secrets and revelations to facilitate its surprises.
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The Playlist
Strangerland starts off promisingly enough, but it just can't decide where it wants to go, or even how to get there.
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Screen Daily
The directorial debut of Australian filmmaker Kim Farrant is undone by a series of overwrought, miscalculated scenes that can’t be redeemed by an expert cast that’s fully committed to the heavy-handedness.
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Los Angeles Times
Though Kidman is solid as a wife and mom tormented by her daughter's secret erotic life, Strangerland never successfully welds its central mystery with its psychosexual drapings, leaving neither especially interesting.