All of Us Strangers (2024)

★★★★

All of Us Strangers had me from its first shot, a heart-crushing tone poem where fantasy and reverie drip into one another like a delicate but beautiful dream. It probably shouldn't work, but Andrew Haigh's images and Andrew Scott's performance make this cinematic haunting real. The movie does this slippery thing where it has this extremely conceptual (bordering absurd) premise, bound only by emotional logic, yet still feels incredibly physical and immediate. You're pulled into its emotional vortex — watching Mescal and Scott together is magic. And not for nothing, it’s a beautifully shot movie. The film is an enormously satisfying and affecting experience. A powerful, intimate, and emotionally devastating meditation on grief, loneliness, and learning to move on.

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Film Info:

Premise: A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with a mysterious neighbor as he then discovers his parents appear to be living just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

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Netflix

Directed by Andrew Haigh

Screenplay by Andrew Haigh

Based on the book “Strangers” by Taichi Yamada

Cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell

Runtime: 1hr 45min

Rating: 14A

Drama, Fantasy, Romance

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IMDb Rating: 8.1/10

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96%

RT Audience Score: 92%

RT Critic Average: 8.7/10

RT Audience Average: 4.5/5

Metacritic Score: 90

Letterboxd: 4.0/5

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Fun Fact: Andrew Haigh's childhood home served as the filming location for the house Adam finds his parents in.

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