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 "So muddled, repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
 "Helps to remind the First World that HIV/AIDS is far from being yesterday's news."
-- Jamie Russell, BBCI FILMS
"Kiarostami profoundly displays Uganda's life and culture through his touristy pictures, as deceptively simple as the alphabet"
-- John A. Nesbit, CULTUREDOSE.NET
"Better to just call it ABC Kiarostami. For AIDS and Africa are nothing more than part of the scenery."
-- Joe McGovern, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"ABC Africa, with its impressionistic style, doesn’t provide much in the way of facts ... but it does provide glimpses of the dying."
-- Maria Garcia, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"There are more shots of children smiling for the camera than typical documentary footage which hurts the overall impact of the film. It's makes a better travelogue than movie."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"Very much a home video, and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
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-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
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"The you-are-there style ultimately enhances ABC Africa's ability to get inside the soul of Uganda, and of the viewer."
-- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"You come away from his film overwhelmed, hopeful and, perhaps paradoxically, illuminated."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"Fulfilling his mandate to make useful publicity, Kiarostami unavoidably expressed himself."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"The people in ABC Africa are treated as docile, mostly wordless ethnographic extras."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"A movie of seemingly limpid transparency and tremendous, understated compassion."
-- CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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-- Luca Bandirali, REVISION
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