The Brazilian gangster film City Of God is not only a lightning bolt of energy on screen, but a primal social document. That duality is exceedingly rare.

As cinema, playing here in slangy Portuguese with English subtitles, City Of God is flat-out exhilarating, a visceral high. On its glossy surface, it is a kinetic action film that, while thrusting us into a unique hell on earth, is also rife with poignant moments of human behaviour from giddy romance to profound regret, and giddy laughs to those shocking moments of terror that turned this into a "Restricted" film here.
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