Darfur Now (2007)
Crescendo Productions

Description

This acclaimed, inspiring documentary follows six people who are striving to end the suffering 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 Don Cheadle, who traverses the globe with fellow actor George Clooney to pressure world leaders – demonstrate the power of one individual to make extraordinary changes. Be an eyewitness to the tragedy and the triumphs, the fear and the pride. Meet the refugees, determined to return to their beloved homeland. And discover how you too can make a difference.

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Collected reviews and ratings

9.2 Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

... the film gets a little ''We can fix this!'' inspirational for a chronicle of such staggering darkness.
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9.2 digitallyobsessed.com | Matt Serafini

If Darfur Now isn’t the political and historical lesson I was expecting, it’s an inspirational and moving film about optimism against an unthinkable evil in modern society. It reminds us that, in this case, no action taken is too small or insignificant.
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9.0 Amazon user reviews

This highlights the cause and the people who are helping that cause of Darfur. I hope this opens people's eyes to the real problems in Sudan.
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8.8 TV Guide | Ken Fox

"Inspiring" is a word often used to describe human-rights-oriented documentaries, but Theodore Braun's film about efforts to ease the ongoing genocide in Sudan's Darfur region really earns that epithet.
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8.0 Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

... provides context and an invaluable human face to a story that too many Westerners perceive as distant or irrelevant, if they perceive it at all. See "Darfur Now," and you won't read the daily news the same way again.
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7.5 The Onion A.V. Club | Keith Phipps

The film is undeniably on the side of the angels, but any of its subjects' stories might have worked better if told in greater depth.
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7.5 DVD Verdict | Gordon Sullivan

I have no doubt that the genocide in Darfur needs greater exposure, but sadly this documentary isn't the best venue. Everyone involved seems to have the best intentions, but the film is a frustrating watch because it bounces around too much to be as engrossing as the subject demands.
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7.0 New York Times | Stephen Holden

... Don Cheadle poses a fundamental question facing moviegoers attending a film about African strife: How do you respond to an event as difficult to understand as a government-sponsored mass murder of part of a country’s civilian population?
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4.0 filmcritic.com | Chris Barsanti

But although it begins with the most honorable intentions, the film ultimately fails to serve as the rousing call to action it desires to be, swaddled as it is in muddle-headed hero-worship and a soft-focus PSA style.
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4.0 Boxoffice Magazine | Kevin Courrier

By the time Stevie Wonder starts crooning "Love's in Need of Love" with Bono, you start wondering if someone is going to show up in the theatre aisle with a change box.
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