The Strays
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): February 22, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Little White LiesAnton BitelMar 10, 2023
Hidden in Martello-White’s bold, assured calling card is a provocative allegory of black experience in white Britain, as characters get caught in an evolving conflict between estrangement and assimilation, individualism and inauthenticity, pride and self-loathing. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 22, 2023
The smart, subdued finale is the only one that we’d believe and accept — logical, and damning and thought-provoking, not unlike the thriller than precedes it. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonFeb 23, 2023
The Strays, the feature-film debut of British writer-director Nathaniel Martello-White, is an engrossing, disturbing and even novel work, though its principal influences hang around like Hamlet’s father. Read full review
60
EmpireJordan KingFeb 27, 2023
Despite messy plotting and occasional ill focus, fantastic lead performances help The Strays find its way before a knockout ending really carries Martello-White’s eye-catching debut home. Read full review
40
The GuardianAdrian HortonFeb 21, 2023
British actor/writer Nathaniel Martello-White’s directorial debut nudges at some uncomfortable fault lines of race and class, but tends to over-index unearned suspense for character development or insight. Read full review
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