Straw

Name: Straw
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: June 6, 2025
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 56

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): June 6, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: A single mother’s world unravels in chaos as her day goes from bad to worse to catastrophic as she struggles to care for her ill daughter. Pushed to the brink by a world that seems indifferent to her existence, she’s forced to confront impossible choices in a society that offers her no safety net.

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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Jordan Hoffman

Jun 6, 2025

Straw is not exactly subtle, but the emotions are so raw and the performances are so earnest that you’ve really got to have a heart of stone not to care for these people. Read full review

Collider Jasneet Singh

Jun 6, 2025

Despite the movie's obvious excesses, it is easy to find credible hyperbole for Janiyah's perpetually drawing-the-short-straw lifestyle, where Henson's performance and chemistry with the cast drive forward the socially relevant heart of the film. Read full review

Lisa Kennedy

Jun 6, 2025

The ending is perhaps too twisting for its own good. But Henson — so deeply committed to her character’s emotional cratering — still makes us care. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Jun 6, 2025

Straw is too messy to be “good,” exactly — but it has a bitter relevancy, and it works. Read full review

Ty Burr

Jun 6, 2025

Straw has all the feels it wants and little of the art it needs. But there’s nothing to suggest Tyler Perry would have it any other way. Read full review

The Guardian Andrew Lawrence

Jun 6, 2025

As ever, Perry – who takes top billing once more as this film’s writer, director and executive producer – engages with many ideas, but none that he seems to fully understand. That includes Black women, whom he does a tremendous disservice to once again. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jun 9, 2025

It’s a pull-out-all-the-stops weeper, full of martrydom, coincidence, over-the-top cruelty, manipulation and plot contrivances. Read full review

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