Darfur Now Critic Reviews

Slick, impassioned, and guardedly upbeat, Ted Braun's film is a morale booster aimed at US audiences rather than the 2.5 million displaced Sudanese tribespeople whose villages have been destroyed and families slaughtered. That we need a pick-me-up more than they do is pathetic, but there you are.Read the full review

It is not a compelling documentary (too much exposition, not enough on-the-spot reality), but it is instructive and disturbing.Read the full review

By showing the struggles and efforts of about half a dozen people, it puts a human face on the tragedy.Read the full review

Instructive as a portrait of activism.Read the full review

See Darfur Now, and you won't read the daily news the same way again.Read the full review

Attempts to both explain the situation to audiences and offer some reason to hope for the future. It's an almost impossible task, and though the film does better than anyone might expect, its success is not complete.Read the full review

What Darfur Now offers is a collective vision of actions, small and large, taken on many fronts, to end the crisis. The movie is a quiet, methodical call to action.Read the full review

It's a heartbreaking tale, a sliver of a tragic history still unfolding, but one that Braun largely leaves others to document.Read the full review