| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2011

Contrasts European greed and decadence with the fallout visited upon Africa due to the relentless rape of its natural resources in the name of profit.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 22, 2007

| Original Score: C | May 7, 2007

A film of intelligence and great empathy that examines the corrosive effects of imperialism on people often left off the pages of history's textbooks. A heartbreakingly great film.

| Original Score: 90/100 | Apr 2, 2007

absolutely brave, unflinching

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2006

If Sauper wanted to dream up a metaphor for the corrosive effects of globalization, he couldn't think of one much better than the Nile perch.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 11, 2006

Sauper's camera, which would fog up if it had tear ducts, looks over Tanzania's nastiness with gloomy forthrightness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2006

It's a heart-breaking cautionary tale for our times that is more a sociological tract than documentary.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

The movie prefers to show snippets of life and let the audience make the connections. Many of these scenes prove memorable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2006

If Sauper is fired up by anti-globalist conviction, his instincts as an artist and as a man rule out any kind of rhetoric or cheapness.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2006

It's kinda like science fiction -- one of those post-the-collapse-of-nature dystopias of the 1970s -- except it's real...

| Feb 28, 2006

Hubert Sauper's brutal documentary is up for an Oscar, and it's easy to see why.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2006

The words Being poor is like being old are scrawled on the door of a shack; like this movie, it's a howl waiting to be heard.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 24, 2006

Sauter's illustration of economic Darwinism at its most primal and unforgiving is a harrowing vision of human life as collateral damage in the modern global economy.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 23, 2006

Darwin's Nightmare is an urgent, horrific, yet at times oddly blinkered vision of the crisis of modern Africa.

| Original Score: B | Feb 15, 2006

Though it obviously concentrates very skillfully on a particular time and place, it also points to larger global issues that should make us all stop and think.

| Original Score: B | Feb 12, 2006

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 11, 2006

The most depressing and important movie you'll see this year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 10, 2006

This isn't going to make you feel anything except miserable, nauseous and angry. And if that's what you're in for, why not just save your money for The Pink Panther remake?

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 10, 2006