This is no sanitized account. It’s gritty and admittedly tough to watch. But it could also be one of the more authentic portrayals of its kind. It certainly left me rattled.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The first great film of 2019. A visceral, pulse-pounding, frenetic docudrama held together with extraordinary technique by Maras. Imagine, a Hollywood film based on real events that depicts men and women of diversity as honest-to-God real-life heroes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2022

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).

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 14, 2022

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

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2021

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2020

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

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 27, 2020

Although some scenes invite a minuscule moral reflection, it omits the causes to underline the effects, using a recalcitrant violence that at times falls into a trifle that prevents proper narrative development. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 25, 2020

At a certain point, it's impossible not to feel every death or injury in your gut. Hotel Mumbai does a great service in telling this story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 21, 2020

[Dev Patel] brings the right mix of stoicism and bewilderment.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 15, 2020

Overall, Hotel Mumbai isn't an easy watch in the sense that it does bring back some very painful memories; but cinematically it is a solid and gritty retelling of an extremely tragic moment in our recent history. 4 Quints out of 5!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 10, 2020

At one point I started shaking in my seat. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 7, 2020

Somehow it works. The film is a rollercoaster of emotion, inciting anger, fear and anxiety in the viewers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2020

The characters aren't quite as strong as the pulse-racing plot.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 2, 2020

A brilliant new docudrama.

| May 29, 2020

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.

| Mar 24, 2020

Maras has crafted a film full of instances that are hard to forget: it's the shaping them into a story that still needs work.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 12, 2020

HOTEL MUMBAI is excellent at creating tension, but terrible at turning it into any meaningful empathy with or understanding of its wider roster of characters, despite the best efforts of Dev Patel.

| Feb 13, 2020

The star glitter notwithstanding, authenticity and generous production spend inform every frame.

| Feb 11, 2020

Much attention with this one: A fierce, almost unbearably intense recreation of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in 2018. The characters don't get much development, but the story is as compelling as it gets.

| Feb 6, 2020

Hotel Mumbai doesn't exploit. It chronicles the randomness of violence, and the ordinary heroism and decency of people forced to confront terrorism. Everyone should see this movie, because it could happen to you.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 29, 2020