The Nile Hilton Incident's reviews
Media reviews
Entertainment Weekly
"The whole thing feels a bit like an Arabic riff on "Chinatown" or "L.A. Confidential" ? a neonoir with a tawdry edge where our imperfect hero will eventually be doomed. It?s not a question of if, only when he will lose".
New York Times
"The trouble with the movie ? and it?s significant ? is that Mr. Saleh is so keen to survey Egypt?s dysfunction that his pacing wanes. It?s possible to admire each scene and still see this film, in its entirety, as in need of some serious sharpening".
Variety
'The Nile Hilton Incident' has indulged in so many grim twists that it?s hard not to read it, and its downbeat ending, as a stinging commentary on the venality of the Mubarak era, as well as the futility of the forthcoming revolution to hold the nation?s actual villains accountable.
The Hollywood Reporter
Perfumed with an enervated atmosphere of decrepitude and stale tobacco smoke, Saleh?s striking feature parts the curtains on an era in the final throes of decline before it?s overwhelmed by historic change.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote