This is one of those movies that Netflix has been throwing in my face as a recommendation forever, and blah blah award-winning blah blah critically acclaimed… but it’s all about street gangs in a slum in Rio de Janeiro and the degree to which I enjoy watching movies about criminals doing criminal shit is: low.

And so what I’ll say is: It’s a very well-done movie, and being all foreign-y and stuff obviously makes it better[1], but in the end, it pretty much is exactly the story you think it is. I’ll put it in that “I’m glad I’ve seen it” column.

  1. Movies are more absorbing if you have to read the dialogue; true fact. ↩︎