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(1 - 37) of 37 OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh Page   1   "My skin crawls just thinking about the rage inside Li'l Dice, who becomes the most feared drug dealer in Rio de Janeiro."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker A+ "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."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 88/100 "Mezmerizing and horrific, a very confident directorial effort."   Cinemania   Dan Jardine 3.5/4 "Brutal and brilliant, Meirelles's stunning City of God virtually redefines the word storytelling."   Movie Boeuf   David N. Butterworth C+ "I came out of the theater feeling lucky to be alive."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "This ultra-realist MTV-style spectacle has the style and urgency of Amores Perros but none of its moral ambiguities."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez "Aunque basada en una historia real, el director brasileño Fernando Meirelles trata el material con un estilo narrativo muy “cinematográfico”, nada realista."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B+ "A textbook example of how to tackle a tough subject and not make a pretentious movie."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov B- "Viscerally exciting but emotionally cool...It fills the eye even as it fails to touch the heart."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3.5/4 "Meirelles has crafted a distinctive motion picture -- one takes us into the streets with an unsurpassed intensity and immediacy."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 4/4 "a devastating epic about the roots of criminality and the ironic cruelties of life that also works as an intimate personal drama"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 5/5 "Fernando Meirelles's powerful, energetic debut mixes troubled adolescence with criminal bonding in Brazil's slums."   Netflix   James Rocchi 4/4 "Visually stunning, socially relevant, and simply unforgettable."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 8/10 "What work best in City of God are the portrayals of the characters involved."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 2.5/4 "The direction is often inspired and sure-handed, even if it's sometimes unfocused or overambitious."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 8/10 "Although the subject matter will be abhorrent and repellent to some viewers, those who can accept or at least tolerate it will be in store for a tremendous piece of filmmaking featuring a mesmerizing story and an unforgettable array of characters."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 9/10 "Forget Gangs of New York, this is the real deal!"   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo A "It's the same film that Buñuel would have made with a larger budget and given today's technology"   Old School Reviews   John A. Nesbit 8/10 "It's a grim epitaph for hypocrisy, and the film provides no comfortable answers for solving any of the problems it so well describes."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 9/10 "Flies at the audience like it was shot out of a cannon ... but has its own unique soulfulness as it explores a vortex of intense poverty and violence ..."   All Movie Guide   Josh Ralske 1/5 "Incredible editing, but leaves an awful taste in my mouth - and I am totally desensitized to violence!"   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 4/5 "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."   Film-Forward.com   Kent Turner 4/4 "Some sort of Blaxploitation epic, but built around complex characters with an incredible attention to detail and based-on-real-events poignancy."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest A- "Tyro director Fernando Meirelles's dazzling, multi-storied epic gives a wide-angle view of the same violent and hopeless life captured over two decades earlier in Hector Babenco's Sao Paolo microcosm, "Pixote.""   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 4/4 "Even in this day and age, City of God is shocking"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes B+ "A blood-spattered, non-stop ride as much into the life of a 'favela' (squatter settlement) as it is into the lives of the youths who inhabit it."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 5/5 "O filme certo no momento certo."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 5/5 "Harsh and extremely shocking. And also one of the most moving and forceful films of the year. "   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline "Often masterful in its distillation of exposition into pure sight and sound energy... but equally frustrating in its attention-grabbing lack of focus."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick B "A visually interesting movie with some good performances and a fairly compelling story."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten A- "It may not be a pretty sight but it is a compelling one."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 2/4 "The question of the picture isn't what to do with the City of God, but really why do anything when such cool movies can be made from its suffering."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 3.5/4 "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."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf B+ Read review   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3.5/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito Read review   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs  (1 - 37) of 37 OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh Page   1