Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: The film is both an unflinching and disturbingly realistic account and also a bit of a formal experiment. With often powerful results, it mostly succeeds at both.
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a vision of hell…this stunning work about one man’s last grasp at humanity when it appears to have been wiped off the face of the earth is a shattering, profoundly moving experience.
- Rob Daniel @ Electric Shadows
- Excerpt: Journeys to the very centre of Auschwitz’s extermination apparatus
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Son of Saul is a tremendous accomplishment of form — from [László] Nemes’ intricate staging to Mátyás Erdély’s oppressive cinematography to [Géza] Röhrig’s performance.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- [New – 2/25/16] | Hugo Gomes @ Cinematograficamente Falando … [Portuguese]
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Intense and engrossing, it’s an existential warning from history…
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Given the theme, Son of Saul is understandably difficult to watch. In many ways it should be.
- Allyson Johnson @ TheYoungFolks.com
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: It is 1944 and we are in Auschwitz-Birkenau. First time feature director László Nemes tackles a well-covered but harrowing subject and setting and chooses a manner we have never seen before to film it. This is not a survivor story; you will find no heroes here.
- Steve Katz @ The Alpha Primitive
- Excerpt: It’s easy to understand why Son of Saul has received the plaudits it has; this is a film of undeniable quality and ingenuity, offering an uncompromising perspective that may not be the easiest to sit through…, but rewards its audience with a tale of what it takes to find grace in even the most hellish of ordeals.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: One feels awful watching Son of Saul, but in the most rewarding way possible.
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: If hell exists, it could well turn out to be something along the lines of the death camp recreated in László Nemes’s searing holocaust drama.
- Diego Salgado @ Miradas de Cine [Spanish]
- Rob Wallis @ The Metropolist
- Excerpt: Son of Saul‘s narrow scope provides unsensationalized, unsentimentalized, as-yet unseen look at life in the camps.
