Critic Reviews

Pound for pound, Ami is a heavyweight.

If there is one film which makes the most out of life, this is it.

Aside from the overbearing soundtrack, the film is mercifully unsentimental and Ami himself can be quite droll.

An uplifting documentary.

A bracingly honest yet poetic portrait of a man refusing to be defined by the limitations of his body.

An unsentimental portrait.

Sloppy but cheerful documentary.

This is the kind of documentary that, though not particularly accomplished by way of direction, writing, or editing, has such a compelling subject that there's no question about its worth.

In moments that have nothing to do with representing the weight of love (whatever that is), the film comes alive: when Ami Ankilewitz isn't a symbol - just a man who, for instance, loves a woman.

Like the cerebral palsy-stricken Irish artist Christy Brown of "My Left Foot," Daniel Day-Lewis' Oscar-winning role, Ami is forced to fight such overwhelming odds to express himself that his very limitations become an aid to his vision.