According to its tagline on IMDb, Straw follows a “single mother [who] navigates a series of unfortunate events, leading her down an unforeseen path where she becomes embroiled in a situation she never envisioned, finding herself at the center of suspicion in an indifferent world.”

This is Henson’s fourth Perry film, following Tyler Perry’s The Family that Preys, Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself and Tyler Perry’s Acrimony. Taraji P. Henson on

Even diehard fans of the tireless Tyler Perry sometimes wish he’d slow down a bit to focus on quality over quantity. But Netflix feature “Straw” has a cultural pulse-taking urgency that lifts it above his usual run of comedies and melodramatic potboilers,