For all the comedy and over-the-top narration this is clearly something of an exorcism of Nabwama’s childhood in the post-Idi Amin Eighties, when he grew up with the sound of gunfire from passing helicopters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2023

This is a fascinating, potentially inspiring story messily told.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 11, 2023

Czubek treads a delicate line, managing to avoid patronising Nabwana or portraying Hofmanis as a white saviour, and the ending is worthy of Hollywood and Wakaliwood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2023

Comes together as an effusive love letter to the Wakaliwood king, despite not always keeping the focus on the more germane perspective.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2023

It’s nice to see the old tension between selling out and staying pure never goes away in any corner of the film-making world.

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

At its core, Once Upon a Time in Uganda is a triumphant celebration of a shared love of cinema.

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

Czubek’s film is a celebration of the joys of making movies (especially ones with lots of fight scenes).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2023

Director Cathryne Czubek seems inspired by Nabwana's sheer vigor and happily designs her film to compliment it

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 25, 2023

If Once Upon a Time in Uganda does one thing, it’s faithfully transmit Isaac’s pure love for the craft — and, in doing so, reinvigorate us with the infectious joy that animates all of his movies.

Full Review | Aug 18, 2023

For all its flaws, Once Upon A Time In Uganda is the only game in town right now that gives a good closeup look of just what it is that Wakaliwood’s doing.

| Jul 28, 2023

I kind of loved this... The love of movies is so strong in this film.

| Jul 21, 2023

The film is very fun at the very beginning... But it does fade away into a lot of repetition and self-mythologizing.

| Jul 21, 2023

Isaac gets the fame, but no fortune, for his work but that may change with “Once Upon a Time in Uganda.”

| Original Score: B | Jul 21, 2023

The first half of "Once Upon a Time in Uganda" is about as electric as any movie about filmmaking you’ll find.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2023

A winning and emotional documentary features a group of filmmakers in a ghetto that makes a global mark despite choppy access to the internet and electricity. Strap yourselves in and dodge the fake bullets. This is FUN.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 18, 2023

“Once Upon a Time in Uganda” works best illustrating the workings of this madcap bunch of filmmakers and their resulting work, clips of which are shown masked with a matte of a 70’s era tube 온라인카지노추천

| Original Score: B | Jul 17, 2023

The film is strongest when capturing Nabwana’s resourcefulness, the exuberance of the local volunteers who serve as his actors and crew, and the joy his films bring to a Ugandan audience hungry for movies.

| Jul 8, 2023

“Once Upon a Time in Uganda” is the advocacy that Isaac’s auteurship and ideology need most—this doc helps one re-appreciate movie-making as a compulsive, creative odyssey, a shot-by-shot pursuit of elusive inner peace.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2023

If you’re an action fan, you owe it to yourself to dive into the filmography of no-budget Ugandan studio Wakaliwood. If you need convincing to checkout this wild cinematic mayhem, Once Upon a Time in Uganda should more than do the trick.

| Original Score: A | Jul 7, 2023

We get to see the difficult work of filmmaking––not just the scripting and shooting, but everything surrounding the actual creative process and building a dream for Nabwana that is bigger than himself.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 7, 2023