Storyline
Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship becomes the core of this tightly wrought thriller, which is based on the true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.
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Cast
Sean Harris, Ewen Leslie, Joel Edgerton, Steve Mouzakis, Alan Dukes, Adam Morgan, Peta Shannon, Matthew Sunderland, Fletcher Humphrys, Stephen Leeder, Simon Elrahi, Anni Finsterer, Thibul Nettle, Mike Foenander, Andreas Sobik, Jada Alberts, Lucinda Nicholas, Melanie Munt, Patty Glavieux, Nick Buckland
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Reviews
100
The Stranger avoids both neat explanations and contrived ambiguity, when narrative pieces are shuffling around to confuse audiences.
90
IGN
It’s the kind of thriller that only comes along every once in a while – truly unsettling and with enough twists and turns to not only keep you interested but on your toes.
83
Collider
What makes The Stranger work is how this all creates an experience that feels as though the two men have become almost doomed to a life where they will aimlessly wander in what feels like an Australian purgatory. Whether they ever manage to escape and uncover some sort of closure is irrelevant to the growing rot that threatens to consume their souls no matter what they do.
80
The Stranger confirms that Wright has arrived, even if his treatment sometimes feels more oblique and self-consciously arty than the material demands.
75
The craft elements of The Stranger are enabled by the character work of Edgerton and Harris, who very purposefully share a mumbling beard aesthetic.
