What struck me is how little I know about international dictatorships. The lessons of Uganda are the lessons our country needs, but the main focus is on the courage of Bobi … it’s as if Dr. King was also a famous singer. People power can save us all!

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 18, 2024

The closeness, viscerality, urgency, and power of the documentary allow us to understand first-hand the degree of corruption and deep disintegration of the Ugandan political system. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 12, 2024

This illuminating documentary is more than just an intimate look at singer Bobi Wine's political activism, including his campaign to be elected president of Uganda in 2021. It's also about a fight for democracy and resistance to political oppression.

| Mar 9, 2024

Bobi Wine is well worth a watch for anyone, but particularly for people who are thinking about what guardrails prevent their own governments from winding up in the same situation.

| Feb 29, 2024

Being able to portray this situation almost from the heart of the conflict, seeing how Wine and other politicians are reduced in plain sight, has evident value.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2024

Switching between various styles, the film cleverly conveys the state of the nation, and the impact of the struggle on Bobi and Barbara.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2024

The Oscar-nominated documentary shows the violence of Uganda's 35-year political regime, but, more importantly, it tells the story of the politician who's come closest to ending it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 16, 2024

This is an extensive, uncensored, and expertly constructed look at the lengths a dictator will go to wield his military regime and secure power. [And the] tireless work [of Bobi Wine to] inspire the masses [against it].

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 26, 2024

…doco filmmaking at its powerhouse, soulful, meaningful best.

| Original Score: 18.5/20 | Jan 15, 2024

Though we spend a good part of the film inside offices or private homes, there is also a lot of footage from the streets, where passions run high.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2023

These are the stories that should be shared. Even with its flaws, by the end of the documentary, you can’t help feeling filled with the hope that Wine never seems to falter from.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 1, 2023

Bobi Wine proves that have a viable, powerful voice alongside showing up and showing out is worth the struggle and pain everytime if it means being on the right side of history.

| Oct 22, 2023

One great strength of this documentary is that it spans so many years; Bwayo’s camera seems to have become embedded in Bobi Wine’s everyday life.

| Sep 21, 2023

It’s a gripping piece of film-making: a propulsive, kinetic account of a grassroots campaign captured at what would seem to be considerable personal risk to both the subject and directors.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2023

In Wine and his wife Barbie Kyagulanyi, they have a fascinating duo, and the access Bwayo and Sharp have to their professional and personal lives is startling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2023

Bobi Wine has a story worth telling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2023

... The film too can remind you of last year’s Navalny: another fine, tragic study of a dissident, a despot, and a dream brutally deferred.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2023

Wine is a man with intoxicating charisma, and a cracking backstory.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2023

Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp’s documentary renders both the unshakable human spirit and the terrors of oppression in stark focus.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2023

Bobi Wine: The People’s President is a tribute to a fearless advocate for democracy and yet another tragic tale of power run amok.

| Aug 24, 2023