Hotel Mumbai
Icon Film Distribution | Release Date: March 22, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
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Generally favorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
14
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireIan FreerSep 23, 2019
Hotel Mumbai benefits from strong filmmaking and an unflinching gaze, yet it lacks dimensions, both in its characters and take on its subject matter. Still, it’s a punchy, promising debut. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMar 21, 2019
As a thriller it’s efficient, if formulaic, and technically proficient, if undistinguished. Read full review
60
Rolling StonePeter TraversMar 21, 2019
Aussie director Anthony Maras, in his feature debut, brings a Hitchcockian feel for suspense and a documentarian’s eye for detail to the brutal events that transpired over three days in November 2008 when the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba initiated an attack on the city of Mumbai. Read full review
60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneMar 18, 2019
Is it any surprise that this disturbing brand of cinema was triggered by 9/11, a catastrophe that, despite the valor it called forth, and the wars that ensued, lies beyond redemption and revenge? Or that Hotel Mumbai, a well-staged model of the form, should leave you feeling fidgety and low? You can admire a film, reel at the horrors it unfolds, and still wind up asking yourself, helplessly, what it was all for. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerSep 12, 2018
The film is both gripping in its execution — although a two-hours-plus running time feels a bit stretched — and totally bland in what it’s trying to say, with characters who don’t really stand out onscreen. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 12, 2018
Sitting through the harrowing events again nearly a decade later could hardly be described as entertainment, and the film plays to many of the same unseemly impulses that make disaster movies so compelling, exploiting the tragedy of the situation for spectacle’s sake. Read full review
58
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodSep 18, 2018
There’s a line for an audience between conveying the true horror of what occurred and being excessive and Maras barely avoids the latter. Read full review
58
The Film StageBedatri D. ChoudhurySep 14, 2018
Hotel Mumbai is a great crowd pleaser but with a dangerously myopic narrative that, even with its flaws, serves a fitting tribute to the resilience of the people who lived and died through the terror attacks of 2008, but it definitely needs an audience which doesn’t believe everything it sees. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoMar 27, 2019
Too much of what we see feels contrived and ham-handed. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergMar 21, 2019
It reduces the randomness of real-life bloodshed to the slick thrills of a popcorn movie. And after the mosque attacks in Christchurch, which led the film’s distributor in New Zealand to suspend the movie’s release there, its savagery is especially difficult to take. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloMar 20, 2019
If the thought of seeing a lot of people get murdered with automatic weapons at close range makes you queasy right now, Hotel Mumbai is not a film you want to go anywhere near. Few slasher movies have such a high, graphic body count. Read full review
40
The GuardianMike McCahillOct 3, 2019
Art born of outrage has to be more rigorous – and we might also contemplate what merit there is in guaranteeing prospective terrorists a filmed account of their misdeeds. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Simran HansOct 3, 2019
There is something queasy about mining such fresh real-life trauma for popcorn entertainment. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghMar 27, 2019
Movie-release schedules are set by studios months in advance, and many are the movie that had the misfortune to open at an inopportune time. But Hotel Mumbai is responsible for myriad other poor creative decisions that make a spectacle of misery. Read full review
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