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Strangerland

2015

Kim Farrant

Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes, Hugo Weaving, Sean Keenan ...

5.2

341

Drama. Mystery Catherine and Matt Parker (Kidman and Fiennes) are trying to adjust to their new life in the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari. They are pleasant but keep to themselves, unwilling to get close to anyone. On the eve of a massive dust storm, their lives are rocked when their two teenage children, Lily and Tom disappear into the desert. With Nathgari now eerily smothered in red dust and darkness, the locals join the search lead by ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"[An] uneasy drama tries to combine elements of mystery, police procedural and psychodrama (...) [It] has some marquee value (...) though the film’s theatrical prospects aren’t huge."	NEU
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Nicole Kidman's potent performance as an anguished mother isn't enough to redeem this muddled and unpersuasive children-in-peril drama"	NEG
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"Director Kim Farrant paces her story deliberately, building up a heavy, almost oppressive tone, and Kidman takes advantage of it, burrowing into a complex and unglamorous character"	POS
United States	Joe McGovern Entertainment Weekly	"Kidman's best performances have often been as grieving moms and here she provides the flaccid movie's sole flash of daring and unpredictability"	NEG
Australia	Louise Keller Urbancinefile	"There's a wonderful mood and sense of place about Kim Farrant's debut feature set in the Australian outback, although the individual parts are more successful than the whole"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"The directorial debut of Australian filmmaker Kim Farrant is undone by a series of overwrought, miscalculated scenes that can’t be redeemed by an expert cast"	NEG

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