Even if you find yourself wanting more out of the experience, Mosul offers a humanising look at post-2003 Iraq, with a powerful Oscar-worthy performance from Iraqi actor Suhail Dabbach.

| Feb 3, 2021

An Iraq War movie that's actually about Iraqis.

| Jan 5, 2021

"Mosul" isn't the kind of easy, sentimental 온라인카지노추천 viewing often provided during the holidays, but it is a potent reminder of the deadly struggles and sacrifices some people have endured to earn their freedom.

| Dec 17, 2020

Writer/director Matthew Michael Carnahan has crafted a spare and purposeful narrative in which character and incident are allowed to tell their own story without heavy-handed editorialising.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2020

Bessa has terrific presence as the newbie through whose eyes we enter this extreme situation.... Dabbach adds engaging personality touches to the hard-nosed Jasem... One partcular standout is Elgadi as a mercurial colonel in another militia.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2020

It's a shame that Mosul's storytelling can't match up to the action or the power of the real-life story, because then Netflix might have had another Russo Brothers hit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2020

A different take on the conflict in Iraq. There are some great actions scenes that are a great combination of over the top while being grounded.

| Dec 4, 2020

While one could list the familiar clichés readily found in the various American-themed war films of this kind, the added viewpoint brings some inherent complexity.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 3, 2020

Constant war violence in excellent movie about Iraq War.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2020

Despite the Arab actors and subtitled dialogue, it's still a crappy American action picture.

| Dec 1, 2020

Mosul commands attention because of its fresh perspective; the movie tells its story from the viewpoint of Iraqis whose lives have been shattered by war.

| Dec 1, 2020

Mosul, like most great war (and by extension, anti-war) movies of our times, uses the vérité style of filming to great effect.

| Nov 30, 2020

This is one of the best movies of 2020.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 30, 2020

First-time director Matthew Michael Carnahan establishes himself as a talent to keep an eye on with a solid feature debut in the form of Mosul.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 30, 2020

Mosul is a well-made action film with an important message and a lot of heart, a combination seen all too rarely these days.

| Nov 30, 2020

It might come across as inadequate American compensation for having invaded an entire country, but the new war film, produced by the Russo brothers, is more than that.

| Nov 30, 2020

A harrowing war film, directed with urgency, in a way that's always clearly rendered, and not dependent on shaky-cam techniques

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 30, 2020

Some of Carnahan's choices rely on certain Western stereotypes to underscore the awfulness of the Islamic State ... but what Mosul gets right more often is its prioritization of the Iraqi perspective, and the weight of all this violence.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 27, 2020

Balances admirable ambition (it's an American film, but the characters speak Arabic) with the cruder goosing strategies and red-meat dialogue of a revenge picture.

| Nov 26, 2020

It's well-made and engrossing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 26, 2020