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PARTYCURD

7May13

NICE PARTY, SHAME ABOUT THE SIZE.

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julesandvincent

2May13

if you don't like this movie, we can't be friends

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Harry Rossi

12Apr13

This is one of those films that reminds of why I love movies. So entertaining, passionate, raw, stylish, beautiful and least to say powerful . 130 minutes, but feels like no time passed at all. Makes me wanna stand on my seat and scream "I love cinema!"

LoverofLeCinema and cmuela like this

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Henrique Verkündigung

5Feb13

this is a raw fucking movie, nice montage, great scenes and actors, but most important : a hard true portrait about the 'real' brazil.

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Max Kazaam Wilde

29Jan13

This movie has everything.

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John

25Dec12

One of the best films I have ever seen.

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No-Limb Joe

12Dec12

There is life in the City of God. Too bad then that the characters can't break out of being mere archetypes and become people that the audience can care about, and its mise-en-scene is more exhausting than rapturous.

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Duncan Gray

4Dec12

A Mean Streets for the 21st century, so its perhaps unsurprising that some have seen the "Scorsese problem" in it: that is, it's so in love with film style that it divorces itself from the very reality it hopes to document and becomes pure movie myth. But that's simplifying it more than a little, and as far as pure movies go, the last decade hasn't done better. 5 stars.

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ULA ZUHRA

12Oct12

I honestly think this is the film that fucked up my taste in films. (in a good way, I mean, to me anyways.) The film is well done and the filming is natural and the acting is well off fucking brilliant. I watched this in junior high and I keep on trying to find films like these. A classic for me.

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Tim

24Sep12

One of the all time great films. Brilliantly filmed, solid acting and a startling realism. Love it.

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BrianFromConcentrate

15Sep12

This is one of my favorite films. Everything about it is well done. The cinematography and camera moves gave the film a really unique and technical style while still seeming gritty and flowing naturally. The characters were all very well fleshed out and you want to keep watching to see what happens to them next. Amazing film.

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roger o. thornhill

7Aug12

Every bad deed deserves another..... Very well done

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Surrealcinema

13Jul12

This film it´s such a masterpiece. I watched several times through the years.

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Zach Closs

26Jun12

A film like this is treading on dangerous territory, but not lightly as it should be. A few scenes resonate, but for the most part, this is a hyperstylized, overblown, film-for-film's sake exploitation of a painful issue.

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Rosa Friedman

2May12

Visually stunning but extremely violent and thoroughly depressing.

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Coheed 2.5

12Feb12

A masterpiece or trite sensationalism of a culture over-intoxicated with flashy cinematic techniques rather than a heartfelt message? This problem undermines what I once thought was a great film and ended up dogging Meirelles’ later work. Even if I was to praise it for the technical mastery, the debt to Martin Scorsese is writ so large it consumes any sense of Meirelles making a film through his own vision.

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Endless Eye

1Feb12

A near perfect film.

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ramosbarajas

12Jan12

It's such an interesting film. All the characters add up to create an amazing montage. The editing and camera worked of the first 5minutes turned me off, but after that, it kept getting better and better.

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Nutter Jr

8Jan12

I have been wanting to watch this film for several years now and now that I have, I realise why everyone has been recommending it. It is well crafted, small character stories of the favelas (slums) of Rio where violence is out of control & kids grow up thinking it is a natural way of life. A story told passionately, by the director who also brought us the brilliant Constant Gardener, using mostly first time actors.

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orangey

5Jan12

too much of an action movie to have a real social message....

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umman

4Jan12

a story of struggle

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I AM ... MARCY FIERCE

25Dec11

Brutally mesmerizing and moving.

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jeffreyreeser

7Dec11

terrible still. yall can do better

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Bianca

4Oct11

Eye opening

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linxai

31Aug11

Great film

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Janpy

17Aug11

Meraviglioso.

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Andreia

31Jul11

Excelente.

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Christopher Taylor

29Jul11

The sprawling nature of this film fascinates me. The story is rich and the visual style is light on it's feet. Successful in immersing you in the culture and situation. A must see for the crime genre.

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Risya

14Jul11

This was a powerful re-enactment of a true story of the vicious cycle of the gangster lifestyle that is portrayed with haunting accuracy. Brutal. It's heart breaking to know that the societies can be really really messed up and many of them because of the reasons desperations of how they live below the lowest standards in a horrible conditions. It really hits me with a punch! If only these people had more options! :(

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Dave

20May11

This is one of the few movies that manage to truly appall me, and I mean that as a compliment. The scene where a young kid is forced to shoot another child is horrifying every time I see it. A brutal film that remains one of the finest crime dramas of the last decade.