request.query always empty

Hello I'm trying to catch my query strings in my rutes but in 17.2 it's always emty

Here is my route

const Movie = require('../models/movie')
module.exports = {
method: 'GET',
path: '/api/movies',
handler: async (req, h) => {
console.log(req.query)
return await Movie.find()
}
}

and the call I do is localhost:8000/api/movies?cat=test&l=tyui