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Movie Review for Hotel Rwanda
Movie Review for
Hotel Rwanda
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155 Reviews total.
Release date: 12/22/2004
Run length: 121 mins.
Categories:
Drama
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Kids/Family
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Politics/Religion
Summary:
Ten years ago, as the country of Rwanda descended into madness, one man made a promise to protect the family he loved--and ended up finding the courage to save over 1200 people. Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda, secretly used his position and intelligence to shelter over a thousand refugees during the genocide crisis. While the rest of the world closed its eyes, Paul opened his heart to prove that the human spirit can make us stronger than we’d ever imagine.
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Carlo Cavagna
of AboutFilm.com (8/0)
This is an important film to see, but its “importance” does not alone make it good. It only makes...
By
Mike McGranaghan
of Aisle Seat (8/0)
Hotel Rwanda is filled with urgency; there's not a single second of the film that doesn't feel in...
By
Josh Ralske
of All Movie Guide (8/0)
...disappointingly conventional [but] an important film nevertheless...
By
Dan Jardine
of Apollo Guide (8/0)
The filmmakers want to respect history and not exploit it as so much slasher movie fodder.
By
Jamie Gillies
of Apollo Guide (8/0)
Don Cheadle is a revelation in his performance and is my pick as 2004’s best actor.
By
Phil Villarreal
of Arizona Daily Star (8/0)
The characters are cardboardish and even the uplifting moments of rescue seem antiseptic and set ...
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Philip Martin
of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (8/0)
...an instructive and even profound movie about the survival (if not the triumph) of human decenc...
By
Lori Hoffman
of Atlantic City Weekly (8/0)
Cheadle embodies the humanity and bravery of a man who does the right thing despite his own terro...
By
Marc Savlov
of Austin Chronicle (8/0)
Scrappy, powerful, and shocking.
By
Jordan Hiller
of Bangitout.com (8/0)
Cheadle will be discussed come awards season, and not undeservedly, for his performance, but, aga...
By
Wilson Morales
of BlackFilm.com (8/0)
Don Cheadle has always been a good actor but with this film, he has raised his own bar to excelle...
By
Alan Dale
of Blogcritics.org (8/0)
When I say that I would happily watch Cheadle and Okonedo in anything ... I don't mean more movie...
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Emily Blunt
of Blunt Review (8/0)
Hotel Rwanda is one helluva film; strong, blunt, moving, unsettling and eye-opening.
By
Sean O'Connell
of Charlotte Weekly (8/0)
Despite the shocking realities, you’ll leave Rwanda discussing one positive above all the negativ...
By
Roger Ebert
of Chicago Sun-Times (8/0)
...riveting...
By
Michael Wilmington
of Chicago Tribune (8/0)
It's a great story. But it's Cheadle who makes the movie really special, delivering a memorable a...
By
David Sterritt
of Christian Science Monitor (8/0)
The subject is crucially important, but the movie dilutes its impact with by-the-numbers filmmaki...
By
CT Staff
of Christianity Today (8/0)
Cheadle is outstanding in his first major lead role, one where he is present during practically e...
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Jules Brenner
of Cinema Signals (8/0)
Cheadle's portrayal of a steady hand in a vortex of hate and human decimation is an admirable mod...
By
Karina Montgomery
of Cinerina (8/0)
Don Cheadle's work is subtle, not showy – he won’t have a clip of him howling and shaking his fis...
By
Mark Palermo
of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (8/0)
Hotel Rwanda views the effects of tyranny at the level of personal, intimate determination and in...
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (8/0)
[Director George is] so successful that even the little dramatic tricks used to tie together disp...
By
Edward Douglas
of ComingSoon.net (8/0)
Don Cheadle shows once again why he is the most underrated actor in Hollywood.
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (8/0)
If Don Cheadle could not have pushed the UN into genuine action in Rwanda of 1954, no one could.
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Matt Brunson
of Creative Loafing (8/0)
For all its indignant ire, the movie is more than anything a humanist saga, and it's in this area...
By
Arthur Lazere
of culturevulture.net (8/0)
Conveys the horror and anguish of anarchy and massacre while keeping the violence off screen or d...
By
Chris Vognar
of Dallas Morning News (8/0)
A must-see for teens (and adults, for that matter) who know the Rwanda massacre as but a distant ...
By
Steven D. Greydanus
of Decent Films Guide (8/0)
Here, now, is the true face of human barbarity, and the true face of human heroism. Not in the no...
By
Steven D. Greydanus
of Decent Films Guide (8/0)
Here, now, is the true face of human barbarity, and the true face of human heroism. Not in the no...
By
Boo Allen
of Denton Record Chronicle (TX) (8/0)
Despite the film's infrequent fall into mawkishness, it delivers the emotional impact it seeks.
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
David Thomas
of E! Online (8/0)
It's very difficult to do a PG-13 film about genocide. To some extent, director Terry George pull...
By
David Foucher
of EDGE Boston (8/0)
A powerful, stirring, necessary film.
By
Emanuel Levy
of EmanuelLevy.Com (8/0)
A cross between Schindler's List and Killing Fields, but not as good, Hotel Rwanda is too concern...
By
Lisa Schwarzbaum
of Entertainment Weekly (8/0)
Hotel Rwanda is a strange history lesson that leaves us more overlectured than properly overwhelm...
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (8/0)
A powerful, sobering film, alive with energy and urgency. It brings immediacy to a tragedy that m...
By
Eugene Novikov
of Film Blather (8/0)
Rusesabagina remains a vivid, remarkable character, and the screenplay crafts a hero without hero...
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Walter Chaw
of Film Freak Central (8/0)
This isn't a great film, but it threatens to be an important one.
By
Rex Roberts
of Film Journal International (8/0)
A notable film in numerous ways.
By
Phil Hall
of Film Threat (8/0)
Not recommended.
By
David Thomas
of filmcritic.com (8/0)
The story here is stronger than the actual screenplay, which is too bad, since this is a tale tha...
By
Shay Casey
of FilmFocus (8/0)
As it should, leaves you feeling exhausted and wrung-out.
By
Shay Casey
of FilmFocus (8/0)
As it should, leaves you feeling exhausted and wrung-out.
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Brian Orndorf
of FilmJerk.com (8/0)
George has constructed a fine dramatic feature, and a good first step to educating the masses on ...
By
Larry Carroll
of FilmStew.com (8/0)
A small, honest, emotionally complex film, Hotel Rwanda simultaneously destroys and reaffirms you...
By
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
of Goatdog's Movies (8/0)
A star-making performance from a guy who should already be a star.
By
Eric Lurio
of Greenwich Village Gazette (8/0)
It's much like an African Shindler's List and is just as uplifting.
By
Peter Canavese
of Groucho Reviews (7/1)
Functions better as an emotional drama than a history lesson...remains an important and, at times...
By
Jeff Otto
of IGN Movies (8/0)
There are not enough words to describe how fantastic Don Cheadle's performance is in this film.
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Steve Rhodes
of Internet Reviews (8/0)
In a breathtaking performance that could easily be the best performance he will ever give, Don Ch...
By
Jackie K. Cooper
of jackiekcooper.com (8/0)
Don Cheadle provides heart and hope in this story of tragedy
By
Jackie K. Cooper
of jackiekcooper.com (8/0)
Don Cheadle provides heart and hope in this story of tragedy
By
Liz Braun
of Jam! Movies (8/0)
This is a story too big to even begin to comprehend, much less turn into a movie; still, by keepi...
By
Bob Bloom
of Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (8/0)
It should be mandatory for everyone ... to see Hotel Rwanda. The carnage it graphically shows and...
By
S. James Wegg
of JWR (8/0)
... the “devil in the detail” prevents George ... from delivering a more searing condemnation of ...
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
David Kaplan
of Kaplan vs. Kaplan (8/0)
A sure candidate for best film of the year, Hotel Rwanda is not to be missed.
By
Jeanne Kaplan
of Kaplan vs. Kaplan (8/0)
This is an achingly stunning film. Using a word my partner is very fond of, it is riveting!
By
Andrea Chase
of Killer Movie Reviews (8/0)
maintains a low key feel throughout, and it is that approach, removing the palliative shield of m...
By
Linda Cook
of KWQC-TV (Iowa) (8/0)
This is one of those movies, like Schindlers List, that may give you nightmares.
This is one of ...
By
Ernest Hardy
of L.A. Weekly (8/0)
Hooks viewers by having us ride shotgun to Paul's awakening consciousness.
By
Ernest Hardy
of L.A. Weekly (8/0)
Hooks viewers by having us ride shotgun to Paul's awakening consciousness.
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Robert Roten
of Laramie Movie Scope (8/0)
A tale of heroism of a few people against a massive tide of hellish chaos.
By
Carol Cling
of Las Vegas Review-Journal (8/0)
A wrenching fact-based account of the 1994 genocide ... Hotel Rwanda skillfully explores the horr...
By
Carol Cling
of Las Vegas Review-Journal (8/0)
A wrenching fact-based account of the 1994 genocide ... Hotel Rwanda skillfully explores the horr...
By
Nick Schager
of Lessons of Darkness (8/0)
Incapable of honestly confronting its ugly subject matter.
By
John Larsen
of Light Views (8/0)
Cheadle is excellent as Rusesabagina, a family man who turns to routine in order to survive chaos...
By
Kenneth Turan
of Los Angeles Times (8/0)
A film that uses the comfort of the predictable to make horror palatable to a wider audience.
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Mark Dujsik
of Mark Reviews Movies (8/0)
Achieves an incendiary level of power that has the ability to simultaneously anger and shock.
By
Duane Dudek
of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (8/0)
It is a passionate and powerful cautionary portrait of what can and does happen when the world lo...
By
Susan Granger
of Modamag.com (8/0)
Compelling, suspenseful depiction of the 1994 genocide during a Rwandan civil war - with an incre...
By
Kevin N. Laforest
of Montreal Film Journal (8/0)
Not the masterpiece that Schindler’s List is, but still a powerful film and an important reminder...
By
Ken Hanke
of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (8/0)
It's Cheadle who pushes the movie to at least near-greatness.
By
Ryan Cracknell
of Movie Views (8/0)
The best scenes are the ones that show the chaos of what was happening....Unfortunately such scen...
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Andrew Sarris
of New York Observer (8/0)
The most truly inspiring movie of the year.
By
Michael A. Smith
of Nolan's Pop Culture Review (8/0)
'...this will be the film that takes Cheadle from the ranks of character actor to one of the most...
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (7/1)
A deeply affecting film as well as an impassioned one...featuring a stunning lead performance by ...
By
Mark Sells
of Oregon Herald (8/0)
The most significant event of the year.
By
Dennis Schwartz
of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (8/0)
A well-crafted and moving film that relates an important true story that needed to be told.
By
Jeremy C. Fox
of Pajiba (8/0)
Cheadle has been doing great, often hilariously comic, work in supporting roles for years; Hotel ...
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Frédéric Rochefort-Allie
of Panorama (8/0)
Pour un film qui veut dénoncer la violence, il l'aborde d'un regard plutôt délicat.
By
Jay Antani
of Perihelion Journal (8/0)
potentially fantastic material...unfortunately, [Terry] George's attempt is too mired in movie-of...
By
Sean Burns
of Philadelphia Weekly (8/0)
Here's a thrilling, socially committed film that knows how to engage an audience and communicate ...
By
Jon Popick
of Planet Sick-Boy (8/0)
A slightly better, slightly more expensive version of something you'd see as a television movie o...
By
Cynthia Fuchs
of PopMatters (8/0)
An important film, for its commitment and engagement, as well as its insistence that viewers make...
By
Glenn Kenny
of Premiere Magazine (8/0)
By turns harrowing and stirring, it's a shame-inducing history lesson that never feels like a lec...
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
James Kendrick
of Q Network Film Desk (8/0)
the film fits easily into the Hollywood mold, in which trauma is dealt with best by a resourceful...
By
Louis Proyect
of rec.arts.movies.reviews (8/0)
A film long on drama, short on politics and history
By
Mark R. Leeper
of rec.arts.movies.reviews (8/0)
This is a film that shows humanity at its best and at its worst. Hotel Rwanda is a film of epic p...
By
David Nusair
of Reel Film Reviews (8/0)
...it's impossible to deny the power of this true story - particularly given Cheadle's Oscar-wort...
By
Sarah Chauncey
of Reel.com (8/0)
One of the most disturbing films in recent memory.
By
Sarah Chauncey
of Reel.com (8/0)
One of the most disturbing films in recent memory.
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Timothy Knight
of Reel.com (8/0)
An uncommonly good film of considerable intelligence and passion.
By
Robin Clifford
of Reeling Reviews (8/0)
powerful story, dynamic acting and careful crafting
By
Betty Jo Tucker
of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (8/0)
Don Cheadle's inspirational performance draws us more deeply into his character's plight with eac...
By
Donald J. Levit
of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (8/0)
Moves us to deep emotion and, naming names but not belaboring culprits, to great shame.
By
Peter Travers
of Rolling Stone (8/0)
...a film of rare courage and imperishable heart.
By
Peter Travers
of Rolling Stone (8/0)
Despite flaws in execution, this is a film of rare courage and imperishable heart.
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Larry Ratliff
of San Antonio Express-News (8/0)
In addition to being an epic slice of riveting drama, Hotel Rwanda is that rare movie that can ac...
By
Sean McBride
of Sean the Movie Guy (8/0)
Solid acting, a shocking-because-it’s-true screenplay and wisely simple direction make “Hotel Rwa...
By
William Arnold
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (8/0)
The supporting cast is particularly strong, especially Nick Nolte as a frustrated U.N. peacekeepe...
By
Moira MacDonald
of Seattle Times (8/0)
It has a genuine power: the ability of film to beam light onto dark days of history, making it im...
By
Rich Cline
of Shadows on the Wall (8/0)
told in an unflashy way that heightens the authenticity and gently--but rightfully--shames the We...
By
Ed Gonzalez
of Slant Magazine (8/0)
Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda takes a cue less from history than it does from Schindler’s List.
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Ed Gonzalez
of Slant Magazine (8/0)
Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda takes a cue less from history than it does from Schindler’s List.
By
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
of Spirituality and Practice (8/0)
Best film of the year: an ethically rich story of a heroic African who responds to the deep dimen...
By
Michael Drakulich
of Star Newspapers (Chicago, IL) (8/0)
This was a story that needed to be told because the ethnic war that raged in Rwanda in 1994 is of...
By
Michael Drakulich
of Star Newspapers (Chicago, IL) (8/0)
This was a story that needed to be told because the ethnic war that raged in Rwanda in 1994 is of...
By
Dustin Putman
of TheMovieBoy.com (8/0)
As a dramatization of non-fiction events, a film that, more than anything, sets out to evoke dist...
By
Frank Ochieng
of TheWorldJournal.com (8/0)
...the consensus for heartbreak and rage is always at a premium high. This certainly can be said ...
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Scott Nash
of Three Movie Buffs (8/0)
Inspires and entertains
By
Tony Medley
of tonymedley.com (8/0)
This is many times more exciting than any James Bond film, with the advantage that it's mostly tr...
By
Ken Fox
of TV Guide's Movie Guide (4/4)
It's a sad state of affairs when it takes a movie to teach people about a horrendous catastrophe ...
By
Urban Cinefile Critics
of Urban Cinefile (8/0)
The astonishing thing is we are left with a sense of human dignity and courage, and the evil of t...
By
Claudia Puig
of USA Today (8/0)
...moving and powerful...
By
Matthew Turner
of ViewLondon (8/0)
Cheadle has always been a talented, watchable actor in supporting roles, so it's a delight to see...
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Willie Waffle
of WaffleMovies.com (8/0)
Hotel Rwanda and Cheadle make the events come to life for us by focusing on one man's amazing, he...
By
Desson Thomson
of Washington Post (8/0)
[The movie] sweeps over you with blunt, unequivocal conviction.
By
John Beifuss
of Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
Not uncompromised, but still powerful...
By
Stephen Holden
of New York Times (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
...hammers every button on the emotional console.
By
Christopher Smith
of Bangor Daily News (Maine) (7/1) No reference
Don Cheadle is terrific in a movie that sometimes rises to the level of his performance, but whic...
By
Susan Green
of Boxoffice Magazine (3/5) No reference
An effective example of social conscience on the screen.
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi
of Broomfield Enterprise (3/5) No reference
As powerful as the movie was, Don Cheadle was better.
By
Michael Wilmington
of Chicago Tribune (4/4) No reference
...a calm, riveting ground-zero look at a terrible slice of history.
By
Jean Oppenheimer
of Dallas Observer (7/1) No reference
May be the most important film released in the past year. Among the class of 2004, it is certainl...
By
Jeff Vice
of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/1) No reference
Cheadle brings a needed intensity to the film; his character's fear and compassion are quite vivi...
By
Richard Roeper
of Ebert & Roeper (3/5) No reference
Perhaps the best movie of the year, worthy of multiple Academy Award nominations.
By
Donald Munro
of Fresno Bee (3/5) No reference
This isn't a simple morality play with cardboard characters tugging at our heartstrings.
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Bill Clark
of FromTheBalcony (6/2) No reference
The film is an overwhelming, sad, and heartfelt achievement.
By
Bill Clark
of FromTheBalcony (6/2) No reference
The film is an overwhelming, sad, and heartfelt achievement.
By
Kenneth Turan
of Journal News (Westchester, NY) (3/5) No reference
The story it tells is such a wrenching one it cannot help but move us.
By
James Sanford
of Kalamazoo Gazette (7/1) No reference
There's not a single false note or insincere moment in either Cheadle's or Okonedo's splendid, Os...
By
Robert W. Butler
of Kansas City Star (3/5) No reference
Strong stuff.
By
Glenn Whipp
of Los Angeles Daily News (3/5) No reference
Raises an impassioned cry of rage at the savagery people can inflict on fellow human beings.
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Jeff Strickler
of Minneapolis Star Tribune (3/5) No reference
It's simultaneously haunting and inspiring.
By
James Rocchi
of Netflix (3/5) No reference
Real-life drama about the horror of the Rwandan genocide and the heartfelt compassion of one man ...
By
Lou Lumenick
of New York Post (4/4) No reference
One of the year's best.
By
Stephen Whitty
of Newark Star-Ledger (3/5) No reference
It does portray, brilliantly, the transformation of one man, as he moved from servant to saint. A...
By
Marc Mohan
of Oregonian (3/5) No reference
By avoiding visual stylization, refusing even a smidgen of overt sentimentality and remaining stu...
By
Roger Moore
of Orlando Sentinel (3/5) No reference
Move past the big picture, of race hatred, arbitrary maps and guilt over what the UN and the West...
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Wesley Lovell
of Oscar Guy (3/5) No reference
Director Terry George takes his screenplay, which he co-wrote with Keir Pearson, and turns it int...
By
Forrest Hartman
of Reno Gazette-Journal (7/1) No reference
The finest film of 2004.
By
Jack Garner
of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (7/1) No reference
A stunning portrait of a nimble and brave man, performing an exhausting and potentially deadly ta...
By
Dixie Reid
of Sacramento Bee (7/1) No reference
This is the first time Cheadle has been asked to carry a film, and he plays Rusesabagina as a man...
By
Arthur Salm
of San Diego Union-Tribune (3/5) No reference
The tears it inspires -- the tears it demands -- are earnest and earned and true.
By
Tim Appelo
of Seattle Weekly (7/1) No reference
Don Cheadle's eyes have an openness and depth like Martin Sheen's in Apocalypse Now: they're the ...
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Angela Baldassarre
of Sympatico.ca (3/5) No reference
Hypnotic, harrowing and heart wrenching, film is a powerful and explosive film. The best movie of...
By
John A. Nesbit
of ToxicUniverse.com (7/1) No reference
destined to make its relatively small target audience more aware of the current conflicts strangl...
By
Mark Collette
of Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (3/5) No reference
It's all the more successful ... when we realize the sad truth that even a film this powerful isn...
By
Jeffrey Chen
of Window to the Movies (3/5) No reference
Mostly hoping to get by on its subject matter, which works out well for it because that subject m...
By
Daniel M. Kimmel
of Worcester Telegram & Gazette (3/5) No reference
Portrayed by Don Cheadle in one of the great performances of... his career... [Paul] Rusebagina i...
By
Lawrence Toppman
of Charlotte Observer (7/1) Not Reachable
An articulate plea to Westerners not to repeat these terrible sins of omission. Is anybody in pow...
Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
By
Mary F. Pols
of Contra Costa Times (7/1) Not Reachable
Sometimes a story is so essentially powerful and interesting that flaws in the actual telling don...
By
Connie Ogle
of Miami Herald (7/1) Not Reachable
All we can do is hope that films such as Hotel Rwanda remind us all -- moviegoer and politician -...
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (3/5) Not Reachable
...a powerful film...
By
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
of St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/5) Not Reachable
Sobering film.
By
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
of TheMovieChicks.com (7/1) Not Reachable
Powerful, moving, shocking, and unforgettable.
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