| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2008

Admittedly amusing fish-out-of-water moments are nothing compared to what the boys face as they try to adapt to a wildly foreign culture.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2008

It's an uplifting last act, though not one that comes with solutions to an Africa that seems to cough up one genocide after another. Personal redemption and hope aren't a cure-all, but they do shine a light in the darkness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 22, 2007

The Lost Boys' gratitude for simple things will humble those of us accustomed to comfort and opportunity. Their endurance, ambition, and compassion should inspire us.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 22, 2007

Too often with documentaries, we get only the tears. There is no second act or resolution. Christopher Quinn's God Grew Tired of Us gives us reason to hope about a human catastrophe.

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

A thought-provoking film likely to make moviegoers question their own paths in life even as it involves them in the lives of several of the 'Lost Boys' of Sudan...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 30, 2007

God Grew Tired of Us is a better film than Lost Boys of Sudan, focusing on details of the men's lives and shifting fluidly between three distinct "characters": John, Daniel and Panther.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2007

The film's subjects display impressive adaptability, as well as a desire not to forget those they've left behind. The emotional high point is a miraculous reunion between one of the 'Lost Boys' and the mother he'd had no contact with for 17 years.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 23, 2007

| Original Score: B | Mar 17, 2007

Not as good, nor as complex, as The Lost Boys, but that doesn't make the story of mass annihilation, sprawling refugee camps, the generosity of Americans, and the resilience of a handful of Sudanese survivors any less worthy of telling -- again.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2007

It deflates upon arriving in the vast, familiar blandness we know as America.

| Mar 5, 2007

Christopher Quinn and Tommy Walker made this fine and never simply pleading film, its moving subjects including tall, gentle, tireless, prayerful and humane John Bul Dau.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 2, 2007

In an age where xenophobia is rife, God Grew Tired of Us presents the opposite side of the coin.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2007

A beautiful documentary, deserving of its Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Awards.

| Feb 28, 2007

Not quite intimate, the film can only hint at its subjects' depths of pain and strength, inviting them to remember and observing as they grapple with the perversities of life in the States.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2007

[A] simple and direct documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2007

There's no way to not like [John] Dau. Or for that matter, God Grew Tired of Us.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 22, 2007

Satisfying enough to demonstrate that some stories deserve to be told more than once.

| Original Score: B | Feb 17, 2007

Their journey isn't over -- many in Africa still desperately need help -- but the hope and opportunities America offers are a grand place to start.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 16, 2007

The film affirms that if it is possible to survive when you have lost your home, family, and country, it is possible to start over and prevail.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2007