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7.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

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  1. JaredC.
    Oct 6, 2007
    0
    Boring, I hated it.
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  2. GavinH.
    Feb 1, 2008
    10
    Excellent....a real insight as to messed up the world is...and the bloke that said it was boring is a f****** narrow minded.
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  3. ShakenBake
    Aug 22, 2007
    10
    This Movie is very well directed look at the genocide in Darfur. I cried a lot!
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  4. ChadS.
    Jan 14, 2008
    8
    The subject does refer to himself in the third person(and has a Ray Liotta-like laugh) early on in "The Devil Came on Horseback" as he recounts his prospects of being a paper jockey in an office, but when he cries on camera, we believe this Marine Captain. After all, genocide is something to cry about. Since the ex-Marine acts as our narrator, the story of Darfur is abridged by his limited knowledge. He knows the "when" and "where"; the external particulars of Khartoum's collaboration with the Janjaweed, but not the "why"; the historicism of African/Arab relations in the Sudanese region. "The Devil Came on Horseback" has a narrow scope. This doc is about one man's relationship to human tragedy. It's an indoctrination tool, a user-friendly film about a particular current event. What "The Devil Came on Horseback" lacks in insight, it more than makes up with the photographs that documents an innumerable amount of casual hate crimes against the Sudanese people. And sadly, "The Devil Came on Horseback" gives us one more reason to be embarrassed about our current administration.… Expand
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78 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critics

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  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    70
    While the point of view of privileged, Anglo observers on African issues usually raises hackles, such is not the case with The Devil Came on Horseback, a tense account of former Marine Capt. Brian Steidle's witnessing of the genocide in Sudan's western province of Darfur.
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  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Rob Nelson
    70
    Ultimately, Devil ponders the optimism/pessimism = apathy/x equation as honestly and studiously as any doc I've ever seen.
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  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    90
    Brutal, urgent, devastating -- the documentary The Devil Came on Horseback demands to be seen as soon as possible and by as many viewers as possible.
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