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  • Sundance
  • Oct 15, 2002
  • Sundance
  • Oct 15, 2002
City of Men

Summary From the creators of the Academy Award-nominated City of God, comes the spin-off series City of Men. The series follows the lives of Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) as they mature into young men facing the dangers of drug gangs and the heartbreak of first loves growing up in Rio de Janeiro. Originally, City of M...

  • Sundance
  • Oct 15, 2002
  • Sundance
  • Oct 15, 2002
City of Men
Season 1
6 Seasons
Season Premiere: Oct 15, 2002
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
87
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Summary From the creators of the Academy Award-nominated City of God, comes the spin-off series City of Men. The series follows the lives of Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) as they mature into young men facing the dangers of drug gangs and the heartbreak of first loves growing up in Rio de Janeiro. Originally, City of M...

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"City of Men" pulses with the kind of energy you don't get often on American television, and the realness of the shot-on-location scene really makes each episode feel like a minimovie.
By Tim Goodman FULL REVIEW
91
Those unfamiliar with the film may find some scenes--like when the actors break character to tell their real-life stories--a bit jarring. [7 Apr 2006, p.54]
By Dalton Ross FULL REVIEW
90
It smoothly toggles between working as a crime melodrama and a coming-of-age tale, as a harrowing piece of social commentary and a gentle bit of farce.
By Troy Patterson FULL REVIEW
90
Unlike anything else you've ever seen on TV.
By Heather Havrilesky FULL REVIEW
80
The closest American popular television has ever come to this kind of close-up realism is probably the drug-dealing scenes in "The Wire" on HBO, and even they seem a little tame and stagey compared with what takes place in Dona Marta.
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It's a work whose immense vitality and a persuasive naturalism overcome its occasional paroxysms of style or hammered-home points.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
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The humorous moments are all the more precious because life is so tough in this engrossing series.
By Marilyn Moss FULL REVIEW

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