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Every Last Child

Every Last Child

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  • United Arab Emirates,
  • Pakistan
  • 2015
  • · 83m

Director Tom Roberts
Genre Documentary

Parents and health care workers are caught in the cross-hairs of violence and politics as they attempt to protect their children from Polio in Pakistan.

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90

Village Voice by Diana Clarke

This film is a wakeup call in the best sense: urgent, clear, understated.

80

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.

75

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.

75

New York Post by Sara Stewart

Grim but worthwhile.

70

The Dissolve by Andrew Lapin

A prime example of how to deliver a film on an urgent topic that doesn’t feel like medicine.

70

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.

70

Variety by Ronnie Scheib

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.

70

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.

60

New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier

Mostly, though, there’s hopefulness here, and determination to win a fight worth fighting.