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 ...

Virtue is often associated with beauty, and evil with ugliness. But in Argentina in the 1970s, there was a teen serial killer so strikingly becoming he was known as El Angel — the Angel of Death. When ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

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 ...