According to Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews, "The problem with Orphan was not merely that the film was idiotic. Snider) to "Old-fashioned and trashy horror flick" (Emanuel Levy) and "Relentlessly bad" and "Entertaining" (Rob Vaux).
Openly (And at times vehemently) negative reviews are abundant: From "Galling and distasteful trash" (Eric D. Todd McCarthy of Variety was less impressed by writing: "Teasingly enjoyable rubbish through the first hour, Orphan became genuine trash during it's protracted second half." Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote, "The actors have to eat like the rest of us, if evidently not as much, but you still have to wonder how the independent film mainstays Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard ended up wading through Orphan and, for the most part, not laughing." Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a D+ score, saying, " Orphan was not scary. It was garish and plodding." You got one." Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle also gave a positive review, saying: " Orphan provided everything that you might expect in a psycho-child thriller, but with such excess and exuberance that it still had the power to surprise." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave Orphan 3½ stars out of 4, writing: "You wanted a good horror film about a child who was from Hell. It also earned a 42 out of 100 on Metacritic. The critical reaction to Orphan was mixed with the film earning a rating of 56% (43% among the Top Critics) on Rotten Tomatoes where the consensus was: "While it had moments of dark humor and the requisite scares, Orphan failed to build on it's interesting premise and degenerated into a formulaic, sleazy horror/thriller". This is the baggage with which we saddle abandoned, orphaned, or disabled children given a fresh start at family life." Esther’s shadowy past includes Eastern Europe she appears normal and sweet, but quickly turns violent and cruel, especially toward her mother. "The movie Orphan comes directly from this unexamined place in popular culture.
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A hint of this was the vehicle's license plate throughout the movie. Also, some portions of the film are shot in the American state of Connecticut. The film was mostly shot in Canada in the cities of Toronto, Port Hope and Montreal. Aryana Engineer as Maxine "Max" Coleman.Isabelle Fuhrman as Esther Coleman/Leena Klammer.Vera Farmiga as Katherine "Kate" Coleman.
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