The New York Times by Dana Stevens

You come away from his film overwhelmed, hopeful and, perhaps paradoxically, illuminated.

The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

Beyond giving a human face to Uganda's crises, Kiarostami attempts to capture the actual place, a swirl of contradictions as vibrant and beautiful as it is troubled.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

Lovely, heart-stirring film.

Washington Post by Ann Hornaday

A gorgeous and surprisingly profound meditation on a place and its people.

Variety by Scott Foundas

Kiarostami shoots Africa with an uncanny verisimilitude, coming close here to his idea of a "poetic cinema" indebted more to poetry and music than the theatrical novelistic storytelling tradition.

Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

The film is only superficially superficial, and it grows in meaning and resonance as it progresses.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

It's a surprisingly uplifting experience, and in the end, unmistakably a Kiarostami film.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

The emphasis in this surprisingly cheerful film is on the resilience of the living.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

It's not enough for the film to show us a child's corpse wrapped in cardboard; we've got to step back to see Kiarostami himself shooting the sad sight, so that it becomes a Godardian ironic statement.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold

This documentary fails to grasp AIDS as a theme.