75
It’s an unflinching depiction of life in a vulnerable city, a place where innocents are constantly under attack, and the few people doing their best to protect it.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
83
Individual personalities emerge, none more magnetic than Khaled Omar Harrah, who gained international recognition in 2014 for the rescue of a 10-day-old baby.
90
The film has plenty of unflinching truth and emotion and outrage, and it ends with a gut punch. It's the subtly unreal quality of what we're seeing throughout, however, that truly highlights the obscenity of war.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
There is no denying the cumulative power of the material, in large part due the protagonists’ endless reservoirs of humanity, dignity and selflessness in the face of one of the world’s worst biggest current and most incomprehensible tragedies. Light on background and contextual facts, Last Men in Aleppo speaks very loudly from the heart.
75
Slant Magazine by Christopher Gray
Feras Fayyad's film is broadly concerned with portraying the titular Syrian city as a community of neighbors and colleagues.
83
Last Men in Aleppo is less about finding meaning amidst a massacre than it is about people who are trying to survive without it.
80
Screen International by Fionnuala Halligan
Editing is clearly complex given the variable footage, but each emergency call and every character is successfully individualised and identifiable, and several arcs snap into the overall narrative drive.
80
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
This is an essential film, but it is also a terribly dispiriting one.
80
May not be the most comprehensively explanatory or analytical film yet made on the war, but it’s the one that provides viewers with the most sensorily vivid and empathetic sense yet of how it feels to live (and die) through the carnage.