'The Strange Ones': A Road Trip With An Enigmatic Destination
Two brothers (Alex Pettyfer and James Freedson-Jackson) are running from something — and/or running to something — in this stylish but muddled indie thriller.
This low-budget enigma of a film, which follows two brothers (or, at least, two people who say they're brothers) on a road trip, during which they seem to be heading out to a cabin in the woods that neither of them is particularly thrilled about, uses what limited resources it has to conjure up a hazy, unsettling mood. And it mostly works. The characters may not have a clear destination, but this movie does: to put its co-directors Christopher Radcliff
