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

| 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

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

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

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 11, 2006

It immerses you in its reality one toe at a time, until suddenly you are in over your head, gasping for air as the horror of the situation reveals itself in all its savage devastation.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 9, 2006

Sauper's delicately horrific documentary is a short, sharp slap in the face of the developed world, and a long overdue one at that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2006

[A] despairing, essential documentary.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 2, 2005

Darwin's Nightmare is many things, including an environmental cautionary tale, a critique of globalization and a portrait of a community, country and continent in deep crisis.

| Dec 1, 2005

Sauper's documentary is meant to reveal first-hand the devastating effects of globalization -- at least, an irresponsible form of it -- on a poor, foreign culture, and for the most part it succeeds.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2005

Becomes Errol Morris's bad dream -- a documentary apparently uninterested in any factual basis for its arguments.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 30, 2005

An uncompromising portrait of how global capitalism can exploit an area's resources to the point of near annihilation.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2005

Sauper captures a world in which life and death are treated with equal practicality -- and disregard.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2005

With a roving eye and an attentive heart, Sauper's film takes in everyone involved in this miasma.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2005

The documentary tries to pin Africa's suffering on capitalism, but dances around the real problem.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 3, 2005

Hubert Sauper's harrowing, indispensable documentary about Tanzania presents the agonized human face of globalization.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 3, 2005

It illuminates the sinister logic of a new world order that depends on corrupt globalization to put an acceptable face on age-old colonialism.

Full Review | Aug 2, 2005

Strange and terrible are the ways of man.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2005