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

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

| Dec 3, 2019

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.

| Dec 3, 2019

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2019

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2019

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 27, 2019

Hotel Mumbai seems so determined to act like a bog-standard fictional siege thriller that you find yourself wondering why it isn't one. It might not have been all that memorable, but it would have felt considerably less grubby.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2019

It isn't The Towering Inferno Goes to India. It's more United 93 Plays Out on Terra Firma; with the terrors of terrorism no less firmly and vividly portrayed before they are courageously combated.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2019

A visceral ensemble thriller shot with breathlessly sustained suspense and an authentic sense of place, Hotel Mumbai marks director Anthony Maras and cinematographer Nick Remy Matthews, both in their feature debuts, as talents to watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2019

I think this is a very well-staged and often suspenseful movie that -- like a lot of dramatic reenactments of terrorist acts -- I don't think justifies its existence in the end.

| Sep 24, 2019

The film is very well directed by Antony Morris in a way that quite often made me very uncomfortable.

| Sep 23, 2019

If you are going to mine human suffering for cheap thrills, the least you could do is make it entertaining.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2019

An invented scenario might have been easier to accept as entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2019

Done sensitively, there is something redemptive in these films that help us make sense of something senseless, and to remind us that when you observe these real-life, atrocious attacks from afar, a little empathy can go a long way in the world.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2019

What do we do with all this filmmaking dexterity when it serves an effort that feels exploitative and too soon?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 17, 2019

Hotel Mumbai is a chilling and valuable reminder of acts of madness, and acts of heroism, that should never be forgotten.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2019

Hotel Mumbai feels 5 years too late and maybe even 5 years too soon, with a subject matter that's been covered before with greater dexterity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2019

Uneasy and unnerving, "Hotel Mumbai" is a tough one to shake.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 29, 2019