Straw
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): June 6, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Entertainment WeeklyJordan HoffmanJun 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
70
The New York TimesLisa KennedyJun 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
70
ColliderJasneet SinghJun 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
60
VarietyDennis HarveyJun 6, 2025
Straw is too messy to be “good,” exactly — but it has a bitter relevancy, and it works. Read full review
50
Washington PostTy BurrJun 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
40
The GuardianAndrew LawrenceJun 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
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 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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