Strangerland amounts to little more than a turgid 2 hours with a pair of bland, lifeless characters.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 3, 2019

It occasionally winds down here and there, but the intrigue and the character interactions keep it from dipping too low. With strong performances throughout and a story that is solidly told, we have a lot to look forward to from Kim Farrant.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2018

The ambiguity that characterizes the film ultimately does not seem to be so much an artistic decision as lack of assertiveness on the part of the writers. The acting saves it.

| Mar 28, 2018

STRANGERLAND is one of the worst kind of bad films, in that it presents itself to be such a great film--takes itself way too seriously--all the while being an incomprehensible mess.

| Original Score: F | Sep 1, 2017

It's the parched Outback landscape, thrumming with beauty and menace, that leaves the biggest impression.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2016

Secrets and lies is the name of the game, in other words, as this taut but sinister ensemble piece turns the screws in what is an intelligent, all-engrossing - and indeed Irish-produced - film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2016

A shift in focus from a potentially jittery thriller to a humdrum, psychological analysis of a dislocated family becomes the narrative driving force and given the rich backdrop, it appears a great opportunity has been severely missed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 12, 2016

She is as invigorated by her missing daughter's sexuality as her husband is terrified. It's an interesting enough subtext, but foregrounded, it's not enough to carry the muddled movie that ensues.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2016

All the guilt, shame and anguish create a heady brew in an atmospheric but sometimes overwrought tale of a family in crisis.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2016

While director Kim Farrant superbly captures the haunting, parched beauty of the Aussie interior in her debut feature, she stumbles when it comes to the emotional landscape, with the movie flickering uncertainly in tone.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2016

The result won't astound but it will intrigue - at least for a time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2016

Strangerland unassumingly goes way beyond your usual art-house fare to the heart of a scared and scary colonised country.

| Jan 1, 2016

If only the malevolent spirit of the bush were a satisfactory explanation for the enigma being spun here.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 21, 2015

The pieces of this troubling puzzle never come together; indeed, it appears that they're not meant to.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2015

... the melodrama is overheated more than the sweltering setting.

| Aug 21, 2015

Strangerland runs out of gas, leaving us with a couple of final "Forget You" (shall we say) moments. Thanks. Thanks for nothing.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 14, 2015

Despite all of its well-intentioned, high-minded aspirations, Strangerland is a hodgepodge that plods along at a torpid pace.

| Original Score: 5.4/10 | Jul 17, 2015

Drenching the movie in so much mood is rough on the pacing, and there's a pointed lack of urgency to the search.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 17, 2015

Director Kim Farrant goes for a feeling that's as harsh, unforgiving, and wild as the land she lets the camera linger on, and it's the right idea when handling the potential melodrama of the material.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 16, 2015

A slow, opaque Australian psychologicsal drama.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 16, 2015