The 'Son of Saul' director's portrait of a 12-year-old boy confronted with ugly family secrets in 1950s Soviet-occupied Hungary is handsomely mounted but narratively inert. In its place is a burnished ...

Immaculate and inert, "Orphan" plays like a Spruce Goose power ballad too leaden to lift. Premiering at the Venice Film Festival, László Nemes' period epic glows with honey and moves like molasses, ...

Hungarian-Jewish filmmaker László Nemes has returned with his first film in seven years and - it's no coincidence - his third successive movie set in or around wartime. Considering the neorealist ...

The first thing to know about “Orphan” is that the orphan of the title isn’t really one at all. Twelve-year-old Andor (Bojtorján Barabás) has a mother who is alive and well and present, as much as she ...