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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 70
    New York Magazine | David Edelstein

    The captain narrates in a punchy, journalistic style that gives Elite Squad an air of sociological realism--it bears a resemblance to viscerally exciting seventies urban thrillers like "The French Connection." Read full review

  • 70
    Village Voice |

    This latest pounding slice-of-thug-life thriller from Brazil packs the same cinematic firepower as "City of God," only on the other side of the law. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety |

    A one-note celebration of violence-for-good that plays like a recruitment film for fascist thugs. Read full review

  • 30
    The Hollywood Reporter | Ray Bennett

    Poorly structured and at times incoherent. Read full review

  • 25
    Christian Science Monitor |

    Pokes and prods the viewer to watch the brutal, indiscriminate methods of Rio's SWAT-like cops and then demands only one conclusion: That cops in Rio's drug-infested slums must do what they do and if that means rampant point-blank executions, so be it. Read full review

  • 25
    New York Post | V.A. Musetto

    It boggles the mind to think that Elite Squad won the top prize at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival in February. Read full review

  • 0
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    A relentlessly ugly, unpleasant, often incoherent assault on the senses from Brazil. Read full review

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