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A gritty, poignant, and shocking prison movie.
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We know the massacre is going to happen from the off, and yet, despite this, the tension doesn't build much, perhaps because the film is over-long. January 9, 2018 | Full Review…
We know the massacre is going to happen from the off, and yet, despite this, the tension doesn't build much, perhaps because the film is over-long.
Will Self
We're served up meaty, often spicy, slices of sadly wasted lives. August 13, 2004 | Rating: 4/5
We're served up meaty, often spicy, slices of sadly wasted lives.
Jay Boyar
The movie has a tactile reality. You can almost smell it. July 15, 2004 | Rating: A-
The movie has a tactile reality. You can almost smell it.
Steve Murray
Has moments of raw, unflinching power. June 30, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Has moments of raw, unflinching power.
Jeff Shannon
Despite its structural flaws, Carandiru presents more interesting characters than you'd see in a dozen other prison movies. June 11, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Despite its structural flaws, Carandiru presents more interesting characters than you'd see in a dozen other prison movies.
Peter Howell
Babenco brings the place and the prisoners alive. June 11, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Babenco brings the place and the prisoners alive.
Wesley Morris
"Carandiru" is a soulful movie that eschews glamour and formula to present a thoughtful meditation on an endemic prison reality that reaches far beyond the confines of the richest city in South America. June 14, 2009 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
"Carandiru" is a soulful movie that eschews glamour and formula to present a thoughtful meditation on an endemic prison reality that reaches far beyond the confines of the richest city in South America.
Cole Smithey
Carandiru could have been a great prison drama, but it mixed its genres so thoroughly in an attempt to make it entertaining and accessible that I felt it lost its bite. June 21, 2007 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Carandiru could have been a great prison drama, but it mixed its genres so thoroughly in an attempt to make it entertaining and accessible that I felt it lost its bite.
Jason Gorber
Humanity struggles out from under a maximally oppressive system, commenting by haunting metaphor on life outside the prison walls. February 3, 2005
Humanity struggles out from under a maximally oppressive system, commenting by haunting metaphor on life outside the prison walls.
Martin Scribbs
A searing expose of conditions in the Brazilian penal system. September 24, 2004 | Full Review…
A searing expose of conditions in the Brazilian penal system.
Marc Mohan
...most successful as a anthropological primer on the makeshift societies men erect under duress September 7, 2004 | Rating: B-
...most successful as a anthropological primer on the makeshift societies men erect under duress
Philip Martin
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