City of God

4.50
    City of God
    2002

    Synopsis

    In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

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    Cast

    • Alexandre RodriguesBuscapé
    • Leandro FirminoZé Pequeno
    • Phellipe HaagensenBené
    • Seu JorgeMané Galinha
    • Jonathan HaagensenCabeleira
    • Matheus NachtergaeleSandro Cenoura
    • Luis OtávioBuscapé Criança
    • Douglas SilvaDadinho
    • Michel GomesBené Criança - Young Benny
    • Jefechander SuplinoAlicate

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Time

      The film is seductive, disturbing, enthralling -- a trip to hell that gives the passengers a great ride.
    • 100

      New York Post

      Like a bomb exploding in a fireworks factory: It's fierce and shocking and dazzling and wonderful.
    • 100

      Austin Chronicle

      A marvelous achievement that refuses to avert its gaze from the poetry and the insane savagery of the hopeless.
    • 90

      The New York Times

      As the movie's frenetic visual rhythms and mood swings synchronize with the zany, adrenaline-fueled impulsiveness of its lost youth on the rampage, you may find yourself getting lost in this teeming netherworld.
    • 67

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      It takes a strong stomach to sit through its two-plus hours of non-stop brutality (much of it involving very small children).
    • 60

      Los Angeles Times

      A potent and unexpected mixture of authenticity and flash -- even if this is what happened on the ground, making it worth our time on screen is just beyond the contortionist abilities of even this most acrobatic of films.
    • 60

      The New Yorker

      Meirelles's picture is so keen to brandish its social wrath, and its spirits are so rampagingly high, that the bruises it inflicts barely last a night. [20 January 2003, p. 94]
    • 50

      Boston Globe

      Full of action, but no soul.

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