Rotten
The relentless calamity becomes a grind, offering few insights beyond ones that are obvious in the first half hour.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Overview
In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during war time with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
66%
Tomatometer
Fresh
In adapting the novel, Szasz and screenwriters Tom Abrams and Andras Szeker tread carefully, leaving a lot to the imagination ...
Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail
Fresh
A bleak, despairing testament to the cruelty of war, and how it mangles and defaces everyone it touches.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten
If only I could figure out what all this was meant to stand for.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Rotten
Thoroughly unpleasant and at the same time completely unedifying.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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