The documentary trades in hope and humor, rather than despair.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 8, 2007

A riveting movie.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 2, 2004

The scenes of Peter and Santino's adjustment to life in Houston -- a garbage disposal does what? -- are at once quotidian, poignant and absurd.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 17, 2004

Shot on video, and with the look of a PBS entry, it nevertheless manages to function on several levels -- all of them complex and sophisticated.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2004

Culture shock is hopelessly inadequate to describe the experience of the young subjects of the riveting documentary Lost Boys of Sudan.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 6, 2004

In spite of their streets-paved-with-gold expectations, there is no Heaven on Earth

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2004

Offers an opportunity to see a good movie and learn something about an issue that has received far too little attention in the U.S. press.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 23, 2004

It might help you understand an unfamiliar face walking toward you on the street, and that's a great accomplishment for any film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 23, 2004

The film also doesn't get across the magnitude of the horror unfolding in the Sudan.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2004

This is a very moving filmed document.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 2, 2004

[Takes] a fly-on-the-wall approach to capture the small triumphs and personal setbacks these young men face in their new lives.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 2, 2004

The people who made Lost Boys of Sudan have a compelling story to tell, but they haven't quite put their fingers on it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 24, 2004

A documentary about two refugees who come to the United States, it offers a detailed look at the hurdles they face but makes no attempt to analyze, explain or advocate changes that would help them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 24, 2004

Never less than a quietly heart-rending experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2004

Reveals with remarkable clarity the clash of dreams vs. reality, hope vs. day-to-day despair.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 27, 2004

The fact that it's an old story doesn't mean that this new telling of it doesn't, in its rather simple and unaffected way, carry considerable impact.

| Original Score: B | May 21, 2004

like a more intimate and tragic version of Balseros

| Original Score: B | May 17, 2004

Lost Boys of Sudan is a true strangers-in-a-strange-land story

| Original Score: B | May 17, 2004

For American viewers, Lost Boys of Sudan not only details a great tragedy a half-a-world away, but also illuminates much that's good and bad about life in our own country.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | May 14, 2004

It is remarkable how Mylan and Shenk, without voiceovers or other narrative crutches, so flawlessly capture the American experience -- through the eyes of two Sudanese men.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 13, 2004