A ★½ review of Stranger at the Gate (2022)

🇬🇧 At first, I thought to myself: oh, it's good that you're watching this right after "Full Metal Jacket," it's a great complement, closing the arc of a story about war trauma and toxic masculinity. But just a moment later, I was disgusted by the way the makers of this doc have manipulated me into believing that this story is entirely different from what it appears to be. It begins like a thriller, and with every minute we know that something terrible is about to happen, and the whole thing will be a story about difficult forgiveness, about rising above