| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

While it's commendable that Cheadle and Clooney travel the world to promote awareness of the Darfur conflict, it doesn't necessarily make for a good 10 minutes of film.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

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

| Dec 14, 2007

Slick, impassioned, and guardedly upbeat.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2007

The title says Darfur Now -- not Darfur Then, not Darfur Sometime. But the question it asks emphatically is, Darfur Now What?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2007

A disquieting, and somewhat disjointed, call to arms.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 17, 2007

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.

Full Review | Nov 17, 2007

All the stories are fascinating.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2007

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2007

In movie making, as in life, it's not enough to mean well. The real challenge is in being meaningful.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 9, 2007

Both important and engrossing, devastating yet inspiring.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 9, 2007

At 99 minutes, the documentary presents a quick but thorough lesson.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2007

It's a brutal mess, and Braun doesn't sugarcoat things.

| Nov 9, 2007

A documentary exploring the roots and reason of African political corruptness and its history of a tribal violence that shows no signs of abating might have done more to raise real outrage.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 9, 2007

Nelson Mandela may not have defeated South African apartheid, but his story mobilized worldwide protest, which explains the focus on individuals in this effective advocacy film about the genocide in Darfur.

| Nov 9, 2007

Darfur Now is effective pamphleteering, but only an occasionally compelling documentary film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 9, 2007

If it accomplishes nothing else, Darfur Now locates Sudan on the map -- More than that, the film provides faces for the people of Darfur.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2007

This is the kind of film that doesn't end after the credits roll, and it's a gold-star example for what a documentary should do: inspire.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 8, 2007

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.

| Nov 8, 2007