75
Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleA soulful, atmospheric travelogue that toggles between immersing in and removing itself from the chaotic beauty of teeming humanity, El Said's movie gives a humming, on-the-edge metropolis its heart-pumping, reflective due.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThough the story is fictional, the imagery is grounded in a powerful documentary reality.
- 80VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergThe real achievement is how the film captures and holds a mood that develops and expands, with a yearning for what was and what might have been.
- 80Village VoiceBilge EbiriVillage VoiceBilge EbiriIt is not easy to describe In the Last Days of the City, an immersive visual experience with a wisp of a story and a wellspring of ideas.
- 70The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergWhether In the Last Days of the City ultimately comes together as a feature is open to debate, but this is a film of beauty and skill.
- 63Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneSlant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneBy diagramming a vastly complicated metropolis like Cairo from an unabashedly first-person perspective, In the Last Days of the City interrogates middle-class privilege in a time of crisis as a series of either-ors: leaving for Europe or staying in Cairo, hiding at home or protesting in the streets, filming blindly or seeking retrenchment in broad certainty.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt’s a melancholy, interesting film, slightly opaque, a cine-journal about the way youth is clouded by experience.