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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's the eyes of the children ... that stay with you after Ali Zaoua is over -- as well as the compassion that's evident in every frame. Read more
Dave Kehr, New York Times: Less interested in moving a viewer to anger and action than in eliciting a few tears of pity and granting us a warm glow of self-congratulation for having shared for a moment in the anguish of underprivileged others. Read more
Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle: Ayouch takes a subject that could be thoroughly depressing ... and -- through a simple story line, dramatic acting and National Geographic-like shots of the city's rough and pristine edges -- creates cinematic magic. Read more
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: An oblique, heartbreaking film. Read more