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,

If you watched the new Tyler Perry movie on Netflix, Straw —which began streaming today—then you know that Straw ends with a wild plot twist. Not even star Taraji P. Henson saw it coming. “When I was reading it, I was like, ‘Oh, shit!'” Henson told Decider with a laugh in a recent interview.