| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

This wonderful doco is heartbreaking and heartwarming by turns

| Nov 14, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

An emotionally-engaging testament to the indomitability of the human spirit even in the midst of the most dire of circumstances.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 13, 2008

We celebrate joy rising from the ashes of tragedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 21, 2008

This is powerful stuff that reasserts both the evil and the good in human hearts.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 7, 2008

It is wonderful to watch this joyous slice of the cultural lives of these victimized, traumatized children struggling to survive and build a better life in a desperately troubled part of the world.

| Mar 4, 2008

This film offers a child's perspective on the ravages and complexity of war and is also a convincing testament to the healing power of creative expression.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2008

'The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places,' Hemingway wrote in A Farewell to Arms. That statement might stand as the summation of this documentary, which celebrates the strength of winsome, broken children.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 22, 2008

A truly beautiful tribute to the redemptive powers of art, music, and dance, and the insidious destructiveness that trickles down in war to the most innocent of victims. Please see it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 16, 2008

The film's artsy surface diminishes its impact [but] tells a story that needs to be told repeatedly.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 11, 2008

[Dominic Fine's] camera captures beautiful Ugandan locations -- and some equally beautiful character moments. The film ends on a surprisingly upbeat note.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 31, 2008

Because no one dares to call a film about suffering children boring, Fine and Nix slack on analysis and investigation and concentrate on gorgeous saturated cinematography

| Original Score: C | Jan 29, 2008

These kids are amazing in the most literal sense of the word, and you will never forget them.

| Jan 29, 2008

An uplifting, visually pleasing documentary.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 25, 2008

Relies a little too much on the old formula of the underdog sports movie, but it has a lot more substance to it than that.

| Original Score: B | Jan 23, 2008

War/Dance complicates documentary tradition, trying to express events that seem beyond expression.

| Jan 17, 2008

The film is a bit of a mishmash, but you will fall for the children it depicts.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 14, 2007

The horror and heartwarming [is] equally compounded.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 14, 2007

The music offers the northern Ugandan children a chance to heal from their fear and pain--that part of the film cannot be questioned.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 4, 2007