The Stranger

Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris are on knockout form in a superior true-life crime tale

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Operating on a need-to-know basis, writer-director Thomas M  Wright's elliptical but gripping thriller circles one of Australia’s most horrifying crimes the 2003 kidnap and murder of Daniel Morcombe, a 13-year-old Queensland boy. Thankfully,

though, the film avoids any depiction of this atrocity.