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Hotel Rwanda

2004

Terry George

Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Desmond Dube, Hakeem Kae-Kazim ...

7.6

42,230

Drama This is the true story of an ordinary man whose love for his family inspired him to an extraordinary act of courage that saved the lives of more than one thousand helpless Rwandans during the 1994 genocide.

	Media	Author	Review
		Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"The great strength of Hotel Rwanda is that it's not about superhuman heroism but simply about human decency"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This all succeeds as riveting drama. 'Hotel Rwanda' is not about hotel management, but about heroism and survival (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"This wrenching film performs the valuable service of lending a human face to an upheaval so savage it seemed beyond the realm of imagination when news of it filtered into the West."
		Jessica Winter The Guardian	"Sometimes timid and inevitably burdened with cumbersome exposition, 'Hotel Rwanda' does draw blood in a number of expertly calibrated scenes (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Scott Foundas Variety	"[It takes] what ought to have been a complex, powerful inquiry and [simplifies] it to a story about the resilience of the human spirit (...) Pic is lent dimension by Don Cheadle’s exquisitely crafted lead performance"
		Dan Jolin Empire	"It's a weighty message movie, but it's a message worth delivering - and the cast's delivery is flawless (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A film that uses the comfort of the predictable to make horror palatable to a wider audience"
		Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Hotel Rwanda is a strange history lesson that leaves us more overlectured than properly overwhelmed"
		Ed Gonzalez Slant	"The sincere but misguided 'Hotel Rwanda' does a disservice to the genocide in the region, reducing the atrocities in the African country to the stuff of a rote suspense thriller (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

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