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Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Little White LiesAnton BitelLittle White LiesAnton BitelHidden 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.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe 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.
- 70Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonWall Street JournalJohn AndersonThe 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.
- 40The GuardianAdrian HortonThe GuardianAdrian HortonBritish 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.