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 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, ...

“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 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 ...

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 ...

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow ...

Carlitos is a seventeen-year-old youth with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people's things, but it wasn't until his early adolescence that his true ...