Fresh
Thoughtful, sobering, hopeful, despairing, inspirational, depressing, and just in time for the holidays comes Darfur Now, a documentary about genocide in the Sudan.
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
Overview
This acclaimed documentary follows the story of six people who are determined to end the sufferings in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur. The six - an American activist, an international prosecutor, a Sudanese rebel, a sheikh, a leader of the World Food Program and an internationally known actor - demonstrate the power of how one individual can create extraordinary changes.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
74%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Informative and effortlessly gripping.
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Fresh
Slick, impassioned, and guardedly upbeat.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
The title says Darfur Now -- not Darfur Then, not Darfur Sometime. But the question it asks emphatically is, Darfur Now What?
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Rotten
A disquieting, and somewhat disjointed, call to arms.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
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