A film that simultaneously presents beauty and brutality.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Delta remains a gentle, moving and haunting portrait of human nature.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 31, 2019

quiet and acute, but its central relationship suggests sublime lunacy that is never realized.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2010

Quietly moving, well-nuanced, lyrical and breathtaking to behold.

| Original Score: 8.25/10 | Mar 11, 2010

Having played in competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Korneo Mundruczo's plaintive contemplation of the deceptive duality between natural beauty and nature's immutable laws--as both broken and inflicted--"Delta" is an art house film of the first

| Original Score: B | Mar 10, 2010

Mundrucz works this stock tale into a deliberately paced parable of desire and dread.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2010

A putatively humanistic film that succeeds more indelibly as a mythic image-poem.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 8, 2010

A gloomy fable about Eastern European misery and incest along the Danube, that's semi-interesting without being interesting.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 3, 2010

Despite home front deprivation, films like 'Delta' give evidence of Budapest's reserve of talent and promise.

| Feb 1, 2010

Thanks to cinematographer Matyas Erdely, it's so beautiful to look at that the experience is more like walking through a gallery than watching a film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 30, 2009

For all its lofty thematic intentions, this thing has precious little to say.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2009

Strikingly shot though it is, this Hungarian film, by Kornel Mundruczo, is sunk by a drama that represents art-house cinema at its worst: a dull, gloomy tale that skirts questions of plausibility.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 13, 2009

Menace escalates to rape and then murder. It's like a solemn, slow-motion version of Straw Dogs with the wrong side winning.

| May 13, 2009

Slow, laconic Hungarian art-house fare, featuring rape, pig slaughter, and a symbolic tortoise.

| May 13, 2009

Mundrucz generates a moderate amount of intrigue from the build-up but stubbornly resists handling his themes in any direct and digestible fashion.

| Original Score: 2/6 | May 8, 2009

Don't expect to come away a whole lot wiser, but for its duration this film is mesmerising, mysterious and startlingly beautiful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2009

Delta is a weird, eerie, and utterly compelling Hungarian gem. A lugubrious piece of genius.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2009

The movie is lovely looking, but frankly a little specious and shallow.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 8, 2009

Mundrucz's first instinct is aesthetic rather than emotive. But if that strips the film of a measure of moral authority, it only adds to the feeling of hollow nihilism that stays with you long after the closing credits.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2009

It's a stately, impressive drama enriched by understated performances and a terrible pall of dread hanging over this unnatural relationship.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2009