ORPHAN: FIRST KILL **** USA / Canada 2022 Dir: William Brent Bell. 102 mins Here’s a belated prequel to what seemed a memorably twisted one-off that surprises by not going the lazy route. Director William Brent Bell (of THE BOY films and WER) and screenwriter David Coggeshall, realising they can’t…
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ORPHAN **** USA 2009 Dir: Jaume Collet-Serra. 123 mins Isabelle Fuhrman is terrific as Esther, one of cinema’s memorable Bad Seeds: a nine year old, Russian-born girl who charms Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard at CCH Pounder’s orphanage as they grieve the recent death of what would have been their…