In the Last Days of the City
Big World Pictures | Release Date: April 27, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMay 3, 2018
A soulful, atmospheric travelogue that toggles between immersing in and removing itself from the chaotic beauty of teeming humanity, El Said's movie gives a humming, on-the-edge metropolis its heart-pumping, reflective due. Read full review
80
Village VoiceBilge EbiriApr 26, 2018
It is not easy to describe In the Last Days of the City, an immersive visual experience with a wisp of a story and a wellspring of ideas. Read full review
80
VarietyJay WeissbergApr 23, 2018
The real achievement is how the film captures and holds a mood that develops and expands, with a yearning for what was and what might have been. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungApr 23, 2018
Though the story is fictional, the imagery is grounded in a powerful documentary reality. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergApr 26, 2018
Whether In the Last Days of the City ultimately comes together as a feature is open to debate, but this is a film of beauty and skill. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneApr 23, 2018
By diagramming a vastly complicated metropolis like Cairo from an unabashedly first-person perspective, In the Last Days of the City interrogates middle-class privilege in a time of crisis as a series of either-ors: leaving for Europe or staying in Cairo, hiding at home or protesting in the streets, filming blindly or seeking retrenchment in broad certainty. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawApr 23, 2018
It’s a melancholy, interesting film, slightly opaque, a cine-journal about the way youth is clouded by experience. Read full review
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