[Writer-director Tarik] Saleh leans a bit too heavily on mystery cliche in defining his protagonist, but in general the film-noir sensibility meshes well with the political story.

| Apr 9, 2020

As the film reaches its bleak, desolate, lonely ending, it almost precisely evokes the moody imagery of the ending of Chinatown.

| Sep 1, 2019

Fantastically interpreted, and executed with skill and nerve by an obsessed with details Tarik Saleh. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 24, 2019

It's a captivating story with a hell of an ending.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 24, 2019

If you're a fan of classic noir movies and are disheartened by the fact that the genre has devolved into ineffective Blade Runner knock-offs (I'm looking at you, Mute), then The Nile Hilton Incident is well worth seeking out.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 2, 2019

This film noir, set in Cairo as the Arab Spring erupts, is a fabulous example of how have different layers of storytelling that will appeal to a variety of audiences. There is a murder mystery, a political statement and social allegory all in one.

| Original Score: 8 | Jan 2, 2019

A classy noir which places you in the dark and acrid heart of a corrupt society.

| Nov 3, 2018

It an infectious energy about it that is as likely to infuriate as it is to entertain, a film that may begin with a police investigation and ends in a lot of soul searching.

| Nov 1, 2018

Fares delivers one of this year's most impressive male performances so far, one that lifts this film above the neo-noir clichés that it could have suffered from.

| Aug 27, 2018

This intriguing and illuminating film grubbily recreates a failing society that engulfs individuals and spits them out and where only violent revolution can effect change - maybe.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2018

The story plays as a metaphor for Cairo's wider problems, never preaching but effectively humanising.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2018

The film being in Arabic and set in Cairo... displays the classical [Hollywood] elements in a new light. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 15, 2018

The superlative thing about [The Nile Hilton Incident] is how it took advantage its setting during the fall of a dictatorship to embed a crime drama styled as a thriller. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 12, 2018

A real rarity for the local market. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 12, 2018

A genre film that, although it does not bring anything new through its effective execution, does benefit enormously due to its specific socio-historical environment and the good presence of the Lebanese actor Fares. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 23, 2018

Much of the effectiveness of the film is due to the performance of Fares, whose peculiar face seems taken from an Asterix book. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 11, 2018

Provides some nasty gut-punches along the way to the requisite shocking finale.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 9, 2018

The Nile Hilton Incident is an excellent exercise in the thriller genre and is an excellent approach to telling a story of this kind. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 8, 2018

[A] descendant of film noir, the film resorts to classic motifs of the genre to suggest an inescapable and destructive presence, destiny, which comes hand in hand with errors in the political and social system. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2018

The plot plays to relive situations and archetypes that retain the essence of noir... [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 10, 2018