Rolling Stone
"...The best documentary of the year. WHEN WE WERE KINGS offers a stunning look at the 1974 Muhammad Ali/George Foreman fight in Zaire..." 11/14/1996 p.126USA Today
"...[An] extraordinary Oscar-nominated documentary....[A] masterpiece, a total original..." 4 out of 4 stars" 02/13/1997 p.4D Variety
"...Enormously entertaining....A total delight for every second of its running time..." 02/12/1996 Film Comment
"...A valentine to Muhammad Ali as an athlete and political figure..." 03/01/1996 p.51-3 Entertainment Weekly
"...[Ali,] wonderfully captured in finely chosen swatches of film, was beautiful, charming, self-confident, articulate and burning with talent in his prime..." 02/21/1997 p.105-6 Los Angeles Times
"...[Ali's] presence alone makes WHEN WE WERE KINGS a special event....[The film] always compels our interest..." 10/25/1996 p.F18 Chicago Sun-Times
"...A time capsule....It is a new documentary of a past event, recapturing the electricity generated by Muhammad Ali in his prime..." 02/28/1997 p.35 | 
