
After five years of war in Syria, Aleppo's remaining residents prepare themselves for a siege. Khalid, Subhi and Mahmoud, founding members of The White Helmets, have remained in the city to help their fellow citizens-and experience daily life, death, struggle and triumph in a city under fire.... (Full plot summary below)
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After five years of war in Syria, Aleppo's remaining residents prepare themselves for a siege. Khalid, Subhi and Mahmoud, founding members of The White Helmets, have remained in the city to help their fellow citizens-and experience daily life, death, struggle and triumph in a city under fire.
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| indieWireSteve Greene[It] give(s) chilling context to the weight of how long these conflicts have raged. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertThis heartbreaking yet inspiring film is the best and worst of humanity all in one story. |
| Eye for FilmAmber WilkinsonLast Men In Aleppo urges us to see the reality behind the news. |
| Common Sense MediaRenee SchonfeldGripping docu shows real-life footage of ongoing Syrian war. |
| Village 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. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAn artful unflinching analytical doc on the devastating civil war in Syria that won the top prize at Sundance. |
| RogerEbert.comVikram MurthiIt’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. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeMay not be the most comprehensively explanatory or analytical film yet made on the war, but it’s the one that provides viewers with the most sensorily vivid and empathetic sense yet of how it feels to live (and die) through the carnage. |
| Screen InternationalFionnuala 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. |
| New York TimesGlenn KennyThis is an essential film, but it is also a terribly dispiriting one. |