Ana had been born and raised in the coastal Montenegrin city of Herceg Novi, forced to endure the hardships of growing up as a woman in the Balkans, where changes of political regimes can result in disastrous consequences. Her coming of age story mirrors the story of the city's flagship resort: Hotel Boka, that grows and develops at a rapid pace, much like her, and will fall once she's on her deathbed.
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Observer by Rex Reed
Unsparing in its depiction of violence and carnage, the movie meets an even greater challenge showing the myriad of ways people from every class, culture and creed found the courage and strength to unite and join forces in order to survive.
Film Threat by Andy Howell
No amount of words that can convey the sense of the film, because it is such a gut-punch of emotion.
Original-Cin by Liam Lacey
The craft of the re-enactment is more impressive than the script, which defaults to hackneyed dramatic moments, reminiscent of a generic disaster film, with its stock upstairs-downstairs tropes, young lovers, the cynic-turned-hero, and the dutiful subalterns showing courage above their pay grade.
Screen Daily by Sarah Ward
Writer/director Anthony Maras largely sticks to the dramatisation playbook, but does so in an effective, affecting and empathetic fashion.
The Guardian by Katie Goh
Hotel Mumbai is an excellent, white-knuckle thriller – and an unlikely crowd-pleaser.
Austin Chronicle by Danielle White
The finished product is two hours of fist-clenching action, suddenly violent and steadily horrifying.
Chicago Tribune by Katie Walsh
Visceral and suspenseful, Hotel Mumbai is also deeply humane and moving, anchored by searing performances from Patel, Kher, Boniadi and Hammer.
The Seattle Times by Soren Andersen
It’s a horrifying tale, and Maras, a Greek-Australian filmmaker, does not shy away from showing the carnage.
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
The callousness with which the terrorists operate is palpable and conveyed with a degree of verisimilitude that borders on sadism. Hotel Mumbai is a clockwork thriller, but man, is it hard to watch.
IndieWire by David Ehrlich
What redeems Hotel Mumbai from morbid opportunism is that, in all but its slickest and most Hollywood moments, the thrills of Maras’ heart-wrenching re-enactment are never an end unto themselves.
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