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Avg. Critic Score: 79 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
15 OK for kids 15+
Read Common Sense Media review

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    An extraordinary and effective film. Read full review

  • 100
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Emerges as an African version of "Schindler's List." Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Deep movie emotions for me usually come not when the characters are sad, but when they are good. You will see what I mean. Read full review

  • 90
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    Cheadle impressively carries the entire picture, delivering the kind of note-perfect performance that's absolutely deserving of Oscar consideration. Read full review

  • 90
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Magnificent. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    George has been criticized for simplifying a complex story into an African "Schindler's List." But despite flaws in execution, this is a film of rare courage and imperishable heart. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    A political thriller based on fact that hammers every button on the emotional console. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Scott Foundas

    The genocide of some one million Rwandan Tutsis by their Hutu neighbors remains a disgraceful and too-little-known episode in recent world history. Alas, Terry George's ineffectual Hotel Rwanda only partly rectifies that problem, taking what ought to have been a complex, powerful inquiry and simplifying it to a story about the resilience of the human spirit. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    The story it tells is such a wrenching one it cannot help but move us, especially when the performance of a lifetime by Don Cheadle is added to the mix. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    A strange history lesson that leaves us more overlectured than properly overwhelmed. Read full review

View more reviews for Hotel Rwanda on Metacritic

Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says OK for kids 15+ Excellent but disturbing film is too intense for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie includes a realistic, though mostly non-graphic, depiction of genocide and compellingly portrays the sense of horror and insanity. Characters drink, smoke, and use some mild language.
  • Families can talk about about the slaughter in Rwanda and how the role of the UN and other nations is determined. Families could also talk about the way that an ordinary man became capable of extraordinary courage. How do we know what we would do? How do we make sure we do the right thing?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Not an issue
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Intense and constant peril, machetes and guns, dead bodies, non-graphic violence, characters beaten and killed.
  • sex false0 Sex: Not an issue
  • language false3 Language: Some mild language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking, smoking cigars.
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