Review: 'The Little Stranger' is a 1940s English ghost story that finds the virtue in ambiguity
A slow-building shiver of a movie, "The Little Stranger" tells a familiar but pleasurably engrossing story. Adapted from a 2009 novel by the Welsh author Sarah Waters, this atmospheric postwar gothic unfolds at a crumbling English manor where the repressed have decided to return - not with a vengeance, exactly, but with motives shrouded in uncertainty and sorrow.
It's a haunting that unfolds through the steady, skeptical gaze of a local doctor who is at once seduced by the grandeur of
