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Stray Dolls

2019

Cynthia Nixon, Olivia DeJonge, Robert Aramayo, Geetanjali ...

Drama Riz, a recently arrived immigrant and ex-gang member, works at a motel in hopes of starting her life over in America. At the motel, Riz meets Dallas, a bold runaway who is also a recovering drug and sex addict. Together the girls conspire to rob the motel owner (Cynthia Nixon), which sets off a series of violent events where the girls are forced to take matters into their own hands.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Cynthia Nixon struggles to convince as an Eastern European motelier (...) Her casting is a problematic distraction, both from the movie’s far less recognizable stars and from a story that’s flimsy to begin with."
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"A genre picture with a twist, although the immigrant experience subtext is undernourished within a plot that otherwise hews a little too closely to the conventions of the motel noir."
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A taut and stylish thriller that manages to draw fresh blood from some very familiar territory"
		Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"'Stray Dolls' lacks some narrative momentum, as the characters drift from petty crime to petty crime and party to party. But the film has a remarkable sense of place"
		Andrew Bundy The Playlist	"The film stands out as bold, original take on the kind of material that would fall flat and feel derivative without such a firm voice behind the work"
		Justin Lowe The Hollywood Reporter	"Alternately incisive and uneven (...) While the lack of character detail may add to the sense of inevitability as the women hurtle toward certain calamity, their motivations get a bit muddled along the way"
		Steve Pond The Wrap	"Sinha gives the sleazy motel a vividly murky sense of place even as the story doesn’t really have anywhere to go"

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