Review of Hotel Mumbai (2019) by Anthony Lane for The New Yorker — 18 Mar 2019
Is it any surprise that this disturbing brand of cinema was triggered by 9/11, a catastrophe that, despite the valor it called forth, and the wars that ensued, lies beyond redemption and revenge? Or that Hotel Mumbai, a well-staged model of the form, should leave you feeling fidgety and low? You can admire a film, reel at the horrors it unfolds, and still wind up asking yourself, helplessly, what it was all for.
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This review of Hotel Mumbai (2019) was written by Anthony Lane and published by The New Yorker on 18 Mar 2019.
Hotel Mumbai has generally received positive reviews.
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