...a marvel of controlled filmmaking—a bold vision carried out with powerful simplicity, and an impressively assured debut form both Nemes and Röhrig as his star.

...also a pretty stunning formal accomplishment, especially coming from a first-time filmmaker.

...a film unlike any other Holocaust film you’ve ever seen.

By any standards, this would be an outstanding film, but for a debut it is remarkable.

...glimmer of light in this appalling darkness, infinitesimal yet inextinguishable. Ultimately, it is that glimmer that makes Son of Saul so traumatic.

It's a film that bores straight into your soul and leaves you shattered, but somehow richer for having seen it.

...den viktigaste filmen som gjorts om Förintelsen...

...et teknisk mesterværk, som med sit virtuose og transcendente filmsprog giver tilskueren et næsten ulideligt upyntet og intenst indblik i livet i helvedes forgemak.