Andrew Haigh’s ALL OF US STRANGERS opens with one of the most beautiful shots I have ever seen and doesn’t let up from there. Lonely writer Adam (Andrew Scott) living in a near-deserted tower block in London simultaneously begins a passionate relationship with neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal) and meets the time-displaced ghosts of his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) while visiting his childhood home. As well-honed as all four performances are and as emotionally intelligent as the script is, what really makes All of Us Strangers hit as hard as it does are the questions it prompts. If you were gifted more time with someone you loved and lost, how would you use it? What would you ask them and what would they ask you, no matter how difficult the question? This is one of the most moving films of the year, one that subverts expectations in fascinating ways and speaks to all the quiet outcasts out there on a particularly profound level. SSP