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Common Sense Media

December 22, 2010

Powerful, but only for 17 and up.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
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December 31, 2009

Brazillian director Mereilles' splashy feature debut, a dynamically exciting portrait of Rio's violent gangs, immediately established himsef as an international talent to watch, and the Oscar nods only reaffirmed that status.
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New York Observer
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March 11, 2004

The living conditions it projects are as horrendous as I had feared, but the movie is surprisingly easy to take as a rollicking homicidal entertainment.
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Projection Booth
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November 12, 2008

The visceral and artistic excitement remains surface-bound.
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Film4
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November 08, 2011

Another passionate piece of Latin American filmmaking, which documents a tragic period in Rio's history and highlights the horrors of life in poverty-line communities. Technically a remarkable filmmaking achievement too.
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ColeSmithey.com
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June 12, 2009

Fernando Meirelles' Brazilian slum epic is a profound, stylistically expansive depiction of three decades of child gang warfare on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro with non-actors playing their poverty-ridden lives for the camera.
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Variety
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June 17, 2009

City of God delivers a bruising, visceral experience of the vicious spiral of violence that draws kids into a life of crime, brutality and murder as the only avenue open to them.
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Suite101.com
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September 25, 2010

Each chapter is endowed with powerful, uncompromising, beguiling and, sometimes, deceptive momentum. What seem like innocuous turns become so critical to the narrative that they tie into the ruthless idea at hand: You never see the bullet that kills you.
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Orlando Sentinel

March 20, 2003

Hard to watch but even harder to tear your eyes away from.
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Time Out
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June 24, 2006

The performances, many from non-pros, are terrific.
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Chicago Reader
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November 08, 2011

I came away from this film impressed by its narrative control but unmoved by anything it had to say.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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May 19, 2004

Difficult to watch but hard to look away from.
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