Early in Luis Ortega’s gripping El Angel (★★★★), the modest, middle-class Puchs — mother Aurora (Cecilia Roth) and dad Héctor (Luis Gnecco) — recognize that 19-year old Carlos (Lorenzo Ferro) is a ...

Like its handsome but zombie-like protagonist, “El Ángel” is dressed up in beautiful cinematographic frills but lacks an emotional core. Directed by the up-and-coming Luis Ortega and produced by the ...

A pillow-lipped, golden-tressed teenage boy saunters up to a palatial Buenos Aires home and casually hops the fence. He enters through an open sliding door, helps himself to a drink, fingers the ...

“We all have a destiny. I was born a thief.” With this line, director Luis Ortega’s new film “El Angel,” a biographical drama about Argentina’s most notorious criminal, Carlos Robledo Puch, begins.

A sleekly fashioned true-crime story without much on its mind, “El Angel” comes from Argentine filmmaker Luis Ortega, who works from various accounts of the serial killer Carlos Eduardo Robledo Puch, ...

There’s a fascinating scene in Luis Ortega’s crime drama, “El Angel,” where charismatic newcomer Lorenzo Ferro pulls back his luxuriously long, curly blonde locks to fasten a pair of high-priced ...

Luis Ortega has added his film to the strong-contender list in this year’s Un Certain Regard section at Cannes. His film is based on the true story of Carlos Robledo Puch, a baby-faced criminal who ...

Critic's rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Our endless fascination with serial killers has many explanations. There’s the fear factor, the thrill that accompanies the thought of extraordinary danger lurking ...

An attractive but shallow portrayal of an attractive, shallow serial killer, based on a real-life, baby-faced murderer in 1970s Argentina. “Doesn’t anyone even care about being free?” muses Carlitos ...