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By Tara Thorne (211) for The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (715) on 10 Jul 2016

Unlike most Holocaust movies, Son of Saul doesn't go out of its way to show you the horrors; in this [film], the atrocities pile up in the…

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By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 30 May 2016

Son of Saul reaches a new kind of complex emotional height I've rarely experienced…

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By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 17 May 2016

Frankly, Son of Saul might be most effective if viewers are not fully briefed on what to expect…

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By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 09 May 2016

A modern masterpiece, full of awe and pathos, and justly sworn to a cause that reveals more about ourselves than we might be willing to deal…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seanax.com (387) on 06 May 2016

an overwhelming, numbing, confusing experience by design…

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By Hugo Lara (20) for Correcámara (31) on 04 May 2016

A painful and pessimist film that's not easy to watch, but at the same time has an irrevocable human factor in it. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Saskia Baron (43) for The Arts Desk (640) on 04 May 2016

This is not comfortable viewing, but the film is the better for it…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 04 May 2016

It's difficult to imagine a new way of approaching that topic, but writer-director Laszlo Nemes has come up with something that's staggeringly…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 02 May 2016

It's an extraordinary method of making this unfathomable act personal, a formalist experiment that yields stunning emotional dividends…

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By Aine O'connor (240) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 01 May 2016

It's a rarely expressed side of an oft-told story that proves simple, harrowing and effective…

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By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 30 Apr 2016

The whole film is a crushing experience, giving you very little chance to regain perspective…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 30 Apr 2016

One of the year's most powerful, unforgettable films…

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By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 28 Apr 2016

It is relentless, horrifying, and skilfully implies the endless carnage going on in the background while driving forward a simple but powerful…

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By Kevin Maher (647) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 28 Apr 2016

A film that plunges you, shoulder height, into the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the final days of the war…

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By William Venegas (102) for La Nación (Costa Rica) (102) on 28 Apr 2016

The film manages to complete it's goal: to show that humans can be death machines, but that in the end, there's always hope. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Damon Wise (265) for Radio Times (2,421) on 27 Apr 2016

An intense, immersive experience that harrowingly but respectfully explores the personal and public horrors of the Holocaust…

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By Hugo Hernández Valdivia (119) for Cinexcepción (119) on 27 Apr 2016

In a time in cinema when you would think the subject feels tired, Nemes shifts the usual victimization and gives us a raw and horrifying story…

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By Danny Leigh (85) for Financial Times (1,822) on 27 Apr 2016

I can only say the film is, by its own measure, a triumph. Engineered with virtuoso skill, every moment screams You Are Here. And here is hell…

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By Philip Kemp (186) for Sight and Sound (827) on 27 Apr 2016

It has sometimes been suggested that there's little more to be said, in cinematic terms, [about the Holocaust]…

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By Matthew Anderson (173) for CineVue (2,163) on 26 Apr 2016

It's hard to adequately describe the magnitude of László Nemes' harrowing debut…

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