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Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: A shocking and disturbing, but always compelling look at life in the slums of Rio de Janiero.
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US 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... [More]
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.
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Top CriticIt's a credit to Meirelles and Mantovani that they're able to pack such an epic tale into such a tight, fast-moving package without ever stumbling or confusing us.
City of God may offer few solutions and little hope, but its remarkable artistry and heartrending content make it a movie for the ages.
Director Fernando Meirelles has a gift for visual storytelling, a sharp eye for character and a buoyant sense of color.
Spews like a magma jet.
Visually stunning, socially relevant, and simply unforgettable.
It rings with the kind of truths we'd rather evade.
A marvelous achievement that refuses to avert its gaze from the poetry and the insane savagery of the hopeless.
...a blend of vertiginous post-'Matrix' camerawork with gritty, ochre-tinted street realism -- 'Amores Perros' imagined by Guy Ritchie...
For all their straddling of the line between realism and exploitation, entertainment and education, it's entirely possible that Meirelles and Lund render that line invisible.
Meirelles has crafted a distinctive motion picture -- one takes us into the streets with an unsurpassed intensity and immediacy.
There's a seldom-seen passion and a grittiness in this film that educates, entertains and terrifies.
If the traditional gangster flick has appeared to be hobbling on its last legs over the past few years, this lightning bolt of a movie proves that there are still fresh ways to tackle overly familiar material.
Aunque basada en una historia real, el director brasileńo Fernando Meirelles trata el material con un estilo narrativo muy “cinematográfico”, nada realista.
There's no denying City of God's effectiveness in dropping us into an environment crawling with deception, brutality and blind ambition.
Brutal and brilliant, Meirelles's stunning City of God virtually redefines the word storytelling.
City of God takes us into one of the most dangerous slums in the world.
“City of God” shows us the harsh reality of a world that we Americans may never have known existed.
The violence never feels exploitative; the only thrill you feel is that of being in the hands of a masterful storyteller opening your eyes to a world that you feel truly exists.
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February 28, 2008:
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Two young men struggle to stay afloat amid the drugs, violence, and poverty of Brazil's slums in the big-screen spin-off of Fernando Meirelles' critically acclaimed 2002 film,... More...
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