The Nile Hilton Incident
Strand Releasing | Release Date: August 11, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyAug 10, 2017
The whole thing feels a bit like an Arabic riff on "Chinatown" or "L.A. Confidential" — a neonoir with a tawdry edge where our imperfect hero will eventually be doomed. It’s not a question of if, only when he will lose. Read full review
80
EmpireOlly RichardsMar 5, 2018
A story with all the qualities of a classic LA noir is given a very effective spin by transposing it to politically charged Cairo. It’s angry, frustrated and thrilling. Read full review
80
VarietyNick SchagerAug 9, 2017
Like the finest noir, what springs forth from Saleh’s film is the dreary belief that the bad sleep well while the rest are left to suffer in the streets. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweAug 9, 2017
The Nile Hilton Incident represents the type of penetrating filmmaking that only a writer-director intimately familiar with Egyptian culture but possessing an outsider’s perspective could convincingly accomplish. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleAug 31, 2017
As doomed as Noredin’s actions often seem, they’re tinged with enough simmering humanity to keep us caring. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezAug 9, 2017
The film may not reimagine our sense of how the ties that bind bad men are rewritten in times of war, but it nonetheless gives a casually electric sense of how hardscrabble lives persist in such times. Read full review
50
The New York TimesKen JaworowskiAug 10, 2017
The trouble with the movie — and it’s significant — is that Mr. Saleh is so keen to survey Egypt’s dysfunction that his pacing wanes. It’s possible to admire each scene and still see this film, in its entirety, as in need of some serious sharpening. Read full review
50
Village VoiceKristen Yoonsoo KimAug 9, 2017
The Nile Hilton Incident, despite a stylish, seedy coating, fails to even come close to the canon of greats that have influenced it. Read full review
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