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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceBilge EbiriVillage VoiceBilge EbiriThe 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.
- 83IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichLast Men in Aleppo is less about finding meaning amidst a massacre than it is about people who are trying to survive without it.
- Last Men in Aleppo is one of the most difficult documentaries you’ll see this year.
- 80Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganScreen DailyFionnuala HalliganEditing 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.
- 80The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyThis is an essential film, but it is also a terribly dispiriting one.
- 75Slant MagazineChristopher GraySlant MagazineChristopher GrayFeras Fayyad's film is broadly concerned with portraying the titular Syrian city as a community of neighbors and colleagues.
- 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.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThere 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.