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Darfur Now (2007)

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 60
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 17

Although Darfur Now is not always engaging as cinema, the film succeeds in bringing attention to the crisis in Darfur.

71

Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 7

Although Darfur Now is not always engaging as cinema, the film succeeds in bringing attention to the crisis in Darfur.

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Ted Braun's documentary about Darfur showcases how six different people have each done their part in order to help stop the genocide in the region and bring humanitarian relief to the millions there who suffer. His subjects include a UCLA student who, with no political experience whatsoever, passes a state bill to stop any money from going to Sudan; the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; Pablo Recalde, a central figure in the World Food Program; and actor Don Cheadle, the star of

May 27, 2008

$63.9k

Warner Independent Pictures

All Critics (64) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (17)

Thoughtful, sobering, hopeful, despairing, inspirational, depressing, and just in time for the holidays comes Darfur Now, a documentary about genocide in the Sudan.

December 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comment
Film.com
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Slick, impassioned, and guardedly upbeat.

December 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Boston Globe
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The title says Darfur Now -- not Darfur Then, not Darfur Sometime. But the question it asks emphatically is, Darfur Now What?

December 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
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A disquieting, and somewhat disjointed, call to arms.

November 17, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
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The depressing subtext is that even with detailed proof of ongoing genocide, it takes movie stars to get to the movers and shakers, and to get worthy movies like this one into theaters.

November 17, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comment
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All the stories are fascinating.

November 12, 2007 Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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Darfur Now will have to act as a moral entertainment, a conscientious objection we buy tickets to see.

April 28, 2011 Full Review Source: East Bay Express | Comment
East Bay Express

A powerful testimony to the changes that may come when people make an effort to let their voices be heard.

June 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Eye for Film

Darfur Now has drawn criticism for its artless construction, and while it's true, he knows to step aside and let the passion of his subjects shine through.

December 10, 2007 Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | Comment
culturevulture.net

Informative and effortlessly gripping.

December 7, 2007 Comment
Miami Herald

Braun is, in a sense, preaching to the choir...

December 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

This is a feel-good film for activists, which barely scratches the surface.

November 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Entertainment Insiders | Comment
Entertainment Insiders

Admirable work.

November 16, 2007 Comment
Kansas City Star

A rallying call to aid Darfur and an uplifting case study in the power of individuals to effect change.

November 16, 2007 Comment
Salt Lake Tribune

Darfur Now does one thing other documentaries on the region in western Sudan haven't done so far: It offers hope that something substantive may be done about the Darfur genocide.

November 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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Audience Reviews for Darfur Now

DARFUR NOW engages us to understand and learn the crisis in sudan from different perspectives from a celebrity, a young college student, people inside the administration to people being held in this genocide. Although the event might seem hopeless at times, the documentary shows how the 6 people presented in the film

June 3, 2008
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Interesting and important documentary covering some of the crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan. This movie covers Don Cheadle going to China and Egypt, volunteers in Los Angeles, people in Darfur, an ICC prosecutor, the state of California, and many more people in a complex and important story.

October 25, 2007

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