Hotel Mumbai

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.

Hotel Mumbai is a disturbing and haunting reminder of what so many endured.

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.

Hotel Mumbai is thoughtful and considered in its approach - more so, at least, than we usually expect from glossy adaptations of international tragedy.

There is something queasy about mining such fresh real-life trauma for popcorn entertainment.

It's a tense and sometimes moving directorial debut for Maras, an Australian who until now has specialised in shorts.

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).

A nicely executed thriller that looks beyond the terror to focus on the resilience of the human spirit in the face of surreal adversity.

Despite its lack of focus on its characters, Hotel Mumbai emerges as a very tense viewing experience.

It dives right into the brutality without enough depth, making for an uneasy balance of real-life tragedy and titillating action fare.