The Strange Ones

This unnerving and frustratingly opaque drama focuses on a teenage boy who distrusts his own memories and present reality.

With these performers milking every moment for "feeling" and "meaning," the emotional dynamics become stunningly obvious.

The Strange Ones is a perfect demonstration of how the craft of storytelling is also the craft of withholding - of revealing as little as possible in carefully parceled-out amounts.

A film where even the quiet moments matter and each decision somehow ties into everything else that unfolds.