Hotel Mumbai
critic Reviews
, 76% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- Its depiction of real-life horror will strike some as exploitative, but Hotel Mumbai remains a well-made dramatization of tragic events.
- , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreAndrea GronvallChicago Reader
The movie's coda cements the overarching message of extolling heroism and the survivors' refusal to let terror define them. But that moral still rings a little hollow.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreUdita JhunjhunwalaLivemint
Hotel Mumbai is a disturbing and haunting reminder of what so many endured.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAnupama ChopraFilm Companion
Anthony Maras is successful at staging the horrors of that night and the scale and extent of the tragedy is too vast to leave you unmoved.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreClarisse LoughreyIndependent (UK)
Hotel Mumbai is thoughtful and considered in its approach - more so, at least, than we usually expect from glossy adaptations of international tragedy.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreSimran HansObserver (UK)
There is something queasy about mining such fresh real-life trauma for popcorn entertainment.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreEd PottonTimes (UK)
It's a tense and sometimes moving directorial debut for Maras, an Australian who until now has specialised in shorts.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreTom O'BrienNext Best Picture
Still, "Hotel Mumbai" marks an impressive feature debut for Maras, despite the fact that his script at times lapses into 1970s disaster movie characterizations. (You'll know them when you see them).
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRichard CrouseRichard Crouse
A nicely executed thriller that looks beyond the terror to focus on the resilience of the human spirit in the face of surreal adversity.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreTom BeasleyVultureHound
Despite its lack of focus on its characters, Hotel Mumbai emerges as a very tense viewing experience.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreMatt CipollaFilm Monthly
It dives right into the brutality without enough depth, making for an uneasy balance of real-life tragedy and titillating action fare.
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