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City of God (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 147
Fresh: 136
Rotten:11
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Consensus: A shocking and disturbing, but always compelling look at life in the slums of Rio de Janiero.
Theatrical Release: Jan 17, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $7,299,820
Synopsis: Youth gangs took over the slums of Rio de Janiero during the 1960s and didn't relinquish their stronghold until the mid-1980s. Only a sucker wouldn't have turned to crime and this is exactly how naive teen Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues)... [More]
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Top Critic
A powerful and haunting film that explores the myriad of stories that lie deep within the slums of Rio, City Of God shocks, enlightens and above all affects us by taking us into a world where drugs and organised crime are a way of life.
03/08/03
Top Critic Often masterful in its distillation of exposition into pure sight and sound energy... but equally frustrating in its attention-grabbing lack of focus.
11/12/08
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06/24/06
Top Critic La violencia mostrada en la película es extrema, pero no es utilizada para vender ni tampoco para asistir a la historia. La violencia es la historia, su motor y su ser.
05/02/06
Top Critic City of God is not the easiest film to watch, but it is a masterpiece all the same, maybe the best crime drama since the Godfather films.
01/15/05
"City" isn't supposed to be entertainment but an indictment of the byproduct of poverty. Under those terms, it's impossible not to be moved by the film's searing honesty.
07/05/04
At a full-throttle pace and exciting from beginning to end, directors Lund and Meirrelles grab hold of your attention and don’t let go.
06/25/04
Directors Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles stir all the cinematic virtues into this finely-crafted narrative.
06/13/04
It's a grim epitaph for hypocrisy, and the film provides no comfortable answers for solving any of the problems it so well describes.
06/08/04
We've seen this story before, more or less -- the blood, the budding psychopaths, the all-too-young victims of urban decay -- but never quite like this.
05/10/04
As we see kids of no more than ten or twelve run through the streets with guns shooting those who don't give them what they want, we can't help but pity them.
04/18/04
“City of God” is a movie that, for the lack of a better term, incites us. It elicits a response. It pounds away at us until we break...
03/17/04
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