City of God is a clinic of competent, bold film-making satisfaction.

Rating: 10/10 (11 July 2019)

From beginning to end, City of God is beautiful, pointed, enthusiastic, and adventurous in every category. The cinematography and editing deserve enormous heaps of praise. The writing, acting, and directing come together for a visceral, haunting experience.
It is one of the most diverse films I have ever seen. It is an action movie with drugs and guns; it is a romance with a harshly enlightened view on the purest forms of love in a favela; it is a period drama about the heart of Brazil in one of the most eventful periods of human history. Altogether, it is a war film about the chaos of forgotten life. This movie is a masterpiece.