In the Last Days of the City(آخر أيام المدينة)

The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg

Whether In the Last Days of the City ultimately comes together as a feature is open to debate, but this is a film of beauty and skill.

Village Voice by Bilge Ebiri

It is not easy to describe In the Last Days of the City, an immersive visual experience with a wisp of a story and a wellspring of ideas.

The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young

Though the story is fictional, the imagery is grounded in a powerful documentary reality.

Variety by Jay Weissberg

The real achievement is how the film captures and holds a mood that develops and expands, with a yearning for what was and what might have been.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It’s a melancholy, interesting film, slightly opaque, a cine-journal about the way youth is clouded by experience.

Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

A soulful, atmospheric travelogue that toggles between immersing in and removing itself from the chaotic beauty of teeming humanity, El Said's movie gives a humming, on-the-edge metropolis its heart-pumping, reflective due.

Slant Magazine by Steve Macfarlane

By diagramming a vastly complicated metropolis like Cairo from an unabashedly first-person perspective, In the Last Days of the City interrogates middle-class privilege in a time of crisis as a series of either-ors: leaving for Europe or staying in Cairo, hiding at home or protesting in the streets, filming blindly or seeking retrenchment in broad certainty.