Lost Boys of Sudan Reviews
Arizona Daily Star
The documentary trades in hope and humor, rather than despair.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Christian Science Monitor
A riveting movie.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Oregonian
The scenes of Peter and Santino's adjustment to life in Houston -- a garbage disposal does what? -- are at once quotidian, poignant and absurd.
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| Original Score: B+
Top CriticShot on video, and with the look of a PBS entry, it nevertheless manages to function on several levels -- all of them complex and sophisticated.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Culture shock is hopelessly inadequate to describe the experience of the young subjects of the riveting documentary Lost Boys of Sudan.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Movie Habit
In spite of their streets-paved-with-gold expectations, there is no Heaven on Earth
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| Original Score: 3/4
Offers an opportunity to see a good movie and learn something about an issue that has received far too little attention in the U.S. press.
| Original Score: B
It might help you understand an unfamiliar face walking toward you on the street, and that's a great accomplishment for any film.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Des Moines Register
The film also doesn't get across the magnitude of the horror unfolding in the Sudan.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
This is a very moving filmed document.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Salt Lake Tribune
[Takes] a fly-on-the-wall approach to capture the small triumphs and personal setbacks these young men face in their new lives.
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| Original Score: 3/4
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The people who made Lost Boys of Sudan have a compelling story to tell, but they haven't quite put their fingers on it.
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| Original Score: 3/4
A documentary about two refugees who come to the United States, it offers a detailed look at the hurdles they face but makes no attempt to analyze, explain or advocate changes that would help them.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Orlando Weekly
Never less than a quietly heart-rending experience.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Lacking that exotic 'foreign' focus and by failing to address the hardships of their early lives, we're left with a routine film about teenagers making mistakes or growing up too fast.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Reveals with remarkable clarity the clash of dreams vs. reality, hope vs. day-to-day despair.
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| Original Score: B
One Guy's Opinion
The fact that it's an old story doesn't mean that this new telling of it doesn't, in its rather simple and unaffected way, carry considerable impact.
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| Original Score: B
Reeling Reviews
like a more intimate and tragic version of Balseros
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| Original Score: B
Reeling Reviews
Lost Boys of Sudan is a true strangers-in-a-strange-land story
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| Original Score: B
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
For American viewers, Lost Boys of Sudan not only details a great tragedy a half-a-world away, but also illuminates much that's good and bad about life in our own country.
| Original Score: 8/10
