Fayyad’s images are raw and unflinching, highlighting the unvarnished ugliness of the attacks and the horrible civilian cost. Some of their efforts end in relief, other times horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2022

An unforgettable film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

Haunting experience that will not allow us to forget how catastrophically the human race has failed in Syria.

| Sep 4, 2020

Moving and suspenseful.

| Apr 3, 2020

If you've seen other documentaries about [Syria] and its war in the past, I don't think Last Men in Aleppo will provide you with more insight.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2018

An artful unflinching analytical doc on the devastating civil war in Syria that won the top prize at Sundance.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 6, 2018

If this film does nothing else, It serves as an eye-opening experience to those who are unfamiliar with the crisis abroad and you will not leave without putting faces to the statistics we hear about on the news.

| Aug 6, 2018

The filmmakers deserve extra praise just for embedding and endangering their own lives to produce such a display of heroism.

| Feb 9, 2018

... not an easy film to forget or ignore.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2018

The Last Men in Aleppo documents a catastrophic crisis that still requires international attention, its mishmash of methods produce an effective end result, albeit lacking considerable evocation beyond the subject's raw intensity to sway its audience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2017

Gripping docu shows real-life footage of ongoing Syrian war.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2017

A handsome final product that nevertheless knows when to deliver its audience a startling shock. Its repetitious, sure, but that's part of the point.

| Original Score: B | Jul 20, 2017

[It] give(s) chilling context to the weight of how long these conflicts have raged.

| Jul 11, 2017

An unflinching, grippingly realistic, and heart-rending documentary about the senseless carnage of war.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 11, 2017

Provides an unforgettable look at people forced into their best, defined by constant moments of terrible clarity.

| Jun 15, 2017

Overall, the "you are there" footage lends the film a more journalistic than artistic tone, yet the emotional effect is intimate and unforgettably gripping.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2017

The rescue and recovery efforts are, of course, harrowing and haunting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2017

A tightly focused, on-the-ground account of three men who serve in the White Helmets.

| May 18, 2017

While "Last Men in Aleppo" could stand a trim here and there, it mostly uses its length to good and heart-rending effect ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2017

A cool, objective film critic could complain that Last Men in Aleppo becomes repetitious, but it's that repetition that eats into your mind and makes objectivity foolish.

| May 5, 2017