‘Stray Dog’ Is a Masterful Work of Nonfiction Storytelling

Once, whenever I had to articulate the frustrating sameness of the documentary filmmaking landscape, I’d have to launch into a litany of formal cliches and tropes. But now I have simpler way to explain myself. Whenever someone asks what I mean when I say that too many docs look and feel the same, I can say, “None of them are like Stray Dog.” This is a f…