“One yearns for the knotty moral complexity directors like Kathryn Bigelow and Clint Eastwood brought to similar battlefield stories. Mosul, however, is a rah-rah revenge picture with a fist-pumping finale, the freshness of its Iraqi setting and Arab actors a smokescreen for the oldest, moldiest formula in the Hollywood handbook: This time it’s personal.” – North Shore Movies, 12/01/2020