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Manda Bala (2007)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:15
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: The exciting and fast-paced documentary Manda Bala shows many sides of Brazil -- from the humorous and upbeat to the violent and disturbing.
Theatrical Release:Aug 17, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: In Brazil, known as one of the world's most corrupt and violent countries, MANDA BALA follows a politician who uses a frog farm to steal billions of dollars, a wealthy businessman who spends a... [More]
Director: Jason Kohn
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Reviews for Manda Bala
1 - 18 (sorted by date)
Top CriticTo address the economic inequality of teeming Sao Paulo, Brazil, documentary maker Jason Kohn has joined several loosely related topics into a sort of rhetorical doughnut, leaving a hole in the center where his thesis should be.
01/04/08
Top CriticArtful framing and 23 peppy songs on the soundtrack lend a gloss to subject matter that alternately repels and fascinates...
09/28/07
Top CriticWe see where this is going early on; by the end, despite the film's beautiful cinematography, persuasive subjects and ironically upbeat soundtrack, we just feel bludgeoned.
09/27/07
Top CriticManda Bala (Send a Bullet), a documentary about corruption, crime and human adaptation during difficult circumstances, is a slick, sly and beautifully shot documentary.
09/27/07
Top CriticWow, bet the Brazilian Tourism Board hates this movie.
09/21/07
Top CriticWith a keen eye for wide-screen imagery, Kohn captures the personalities of his interview subjects.
09/21/07
Top CriticThe movie has a great flashiness -- copter shots that swoop over Sao Paulo; swift, playful editing; and pop-operatic sequences driven by catchy songs.
09/14/07
Top CriticMade with energy and style...
08/31/07
Top CriticThe director, a New Yorker of South American extraction named Jason Kohn, serves up a bewildering, yet seldom uninteresting, assortment of subjects.
08/30/07
Top CriticLurid, fascinating, sickening, and eye-opening.
08/29/07
Top CriticA weird hybrid of political exposé and sensationalistic fluff.
08/17/07
Top CriticKohn takes seemingly disjointed and mildly bizarre elements to create a crafty, infuriating portrait of a society seemingly poised, like a scorpion, to be consumed by its own toxins.
08/16/07
Top CriticKohn's film brilliantly depicts the Brazilian financial capital of São Paulo as a hallucinatory Blade Runner realm of the present.
08/16/07
Top CriticWith an excess of excitable style, samba music, and heady, montage-driven metaphor that threatens to bury his film's key ideas, young-gun director Kohn So far, he's succeeded.
08/14/07
Top CriticOnce you get past the gore, Manda Bala makes a powerful statement about the consequences of wanting the good life at any cost.
08/13/07
Top CriticJason Kohn’s gripping Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) is the opposite of a high-school science doc.
08/13/07
Top CriticCrammed into a lively 85-minute package delivered with loads of dark humor and cinematic flair.
01/30/07
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