| Hotel Rwanda Review |
| by Bob Bloom (Rating: 4/4) |
| HOTEL RWANDA (2004) 4 stars out of 4. Starring Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo,
Joaquin Phoenix, Desmond Dube, David O'Hara, Cara Seymour, Fana Mokoena,
Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Tony KGeorge, Mosa Kaiser, Mathabo Pieterson, Ofentse
Modiselle and Nick Nolte. Written...more |
| Hotel Rwanda Review |
| by Ryan Ellis |
| Joaquin Phoenix has a small but vital role as a conscience-stricken cameraman
in 'Hotel Rwanda'. When asked what the rest of the world will think about the
imminent Tutsi slaughter by Rwandan Hutus, he laments, "People will say 'that's
horrible' and then...more |
| Hotel Rwanda Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3.5/4) |
| While the world still rightly anguishes over the horrors of the Holocaust, with
literally hundreds and perhaps thousands of films having been made about it,
HOTEL RWANDA is the first major motion picture that depicts a similar and much
more recent...more |
| Hotel Rwanda Review |
| by Dragan Antulov (Rating: 6/10) |
| In Spring of 1994, just few weeks after Spielberg won SCHINDLER'S
LIST and few weeks after Western powers began taking more active
and, ultimately, more effective approach towards ending the war in
Bosnia, something extraordinary happened and one...more |
| Hotel Rwanda Review |
| by Robin Clifford (Rating: A) |
| Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) is the black assistant manager in a
Belgian-owned luxury hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, Africa. It is 1994 and civil was
broken out outside the walls of the four-star lodging and the now-in-power Hutu
tribe is bent on getting...more |
| Hotel Rwanda Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 8/10) |
| Susan Granger's review of "Hotel Rwanda" (Lions Gate Entertainment)
Actor Don Cheadle delivers an incredibly powerful performance in socially
conscious filmmaker Terry George's powerful depiction of the 1994 genocide
during a Rwandan civil war....more |
| Hotel Rwanda Review |
| by Karina Montgomery (Rating: 4.5/5) |
| This is exactly the kind of movie that will kick butt all over the place
critically and then, as the characters themselves note, drift away into the
backs of our consciousness. The film is set in 1994, during a terrible
internal genocide between two...more |
| Hotel Rwanda Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: B+) |
| Reviewed by Harvey S. Karten
United Artists
Grade: B+
Directed by: Terry George
Written by: Keir Pearson, Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin
Phoenix
Screened at: MGM, NYC, 11/11/04 more |
| Hotel Rwanda Review |
| by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 9/10) |
| CAPSULE: This moving dramatization of the true story
of how one man saved the lives of 1200 people marked
for genocide is certainly one of the best films of
the year. This is a film that shows humanity at
its best and at its...more |
| Hotel Rwanda Review |
| by Jon Popick |
| Terry George, former cohort of In America filmmaker Jim Sheridan, tells the
story of Africa's version of Oskar Schindler in Hotel Rwanda, winner of the
audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival this past fall.
The audiences in Toronto are...more |
