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(1 - 9) of 9 OFCS Rating: 44% Rotten Page   1   3.5/5 "Even with its occasional faults, Manda Bala does what documentaries do best - illuminate an intellectual or social situation that our otherwise narrow Western viewpoint would never even consider."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron A "The picture walks on air describing inexcusable violations of political faith and public safety, brilliantly forming a claustrophobic visual representation of a country struggling to live under the growing cancer of crime."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf 2.5/5 "borders on thoughtless"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti "The concerns of 'Manda Bala' are admirable, but its selective reality is so far from almost any viewer's conceivable experience as to verge on caricature."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit 2/4 "Shunning depth for cosmetic thrills, Kohn doesn't ask us to seriously think about Brazil's contemporary malaise, only to groove to it."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez 3/5 "A scary documentary about the violence occurring in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the chasm between the super-rich and the poor is growing more obscene day by day."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 7/10 "In an account that is by turns funny, shocking, and revolting, director Jason Kohn documents the state of modern-day Brazil, ravaged by poverty, horrendous crime, and political corruption."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 6/10 "A predictable expose' of a foreign country with a dictatorship that encourages the most violent of crimes. But how far away is America?"   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson 2.5/4 "In the end, Kohn's one-note approach diminishes, rather than intensifies, the impact of Manda Bala."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight  (1 - 9) of 9 OFCS Rating: 44% Rotten Page   1