As bad as it is, there’s always someone doin’ it worse!” That’s just one of the pearls of wisdom dropped in Straw (now streaming on Netflix), an effectively tense action-melodrama set during a particularly rotten day in which a hard-working woman who only wants to take care of her daughter finally snaps.

Taraji P. Henson stars in a ‘Dog Day Afternoon’-style drama from one of America’s most prolific filmmakers.

"'It's more Black trauma!' Well, we have a lot of it. The only way to heal is to talk about it," Henson told Decider in this interview.