Carandiru

Marc Savlov

Carandiru is loosely based on a true story the real life prison is now vacant and shut down but with performances so gritty you feel as though someone had put sand on your popcorn in lieu of salt, it has the resonant feel of myth, buoyed by simultaneously vicious and compassionate performances from the men on both sides of the bars. ( Read More )

And, all intellectualizing aside, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle consistently nails that laugh because it is, quite simply, good, dumb, stoner fun. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

In the Brazilian documentary Bus 174, there is a scene that could have been shot in hell. ( Read More )

Maitland McDonagh

The law of the street dominates veteran Brazilian filmmaker Hector Babencos loose adaptation of Dr. Drauzio Varellas fictionalized 1999 memoir Carandiru Station as surely as it does Fernando Meirelles electrifying CITY OF GOD (2002). ( Read More )

David Nusair

Hollywood North is enjoyable enough, in a movie of the week sort of way. ( Read More )