A prime example of how to deliver a film on an urgent topic that doesn’t feel like medicine.
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The New York Times by Daniel M. Gold
As the film makes abundantly clear, if left untreated, contagions — of ignorance, fear and conflict — will spread wherever they can.
This film is a wakeup call in the best sense: urgent, clear, understated.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Provocative and hard-hitting, Every Last Child is a chilling reminder that even diseases once thought eradicated are still capable of rearing their ugly heads as a result of ignorance and prejudice.
New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
Mostly, though, there’s hopefulness here, and determination to win a fight worth fighting.
Los Angeles Times by Martin Tsai
The film couldn't be more timely and germane for the American audience. If it weren't a documentary, it would seem like a post-apocalyptic allegory of our own vaccination debate.
Impressive though the results of the WHO’s campaign to eradicate polio may be, it is Zaidi’s lensing of the streets, waterways and people of Pakistan that lingers in the mind.
Grim but worthwhile.
Washington Post by Stephanie Merry
What’s true in Pakistan turns out to be universal: Misconceptions can prove as dangerous as any disease and are even harder to eradicate.