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

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Director Srgio Machado, who worked as an assistant to Central Station's Walter Salles, lingers sensually over every wrong move his attractive tragic trio make. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Lower City is sexy, but in a nice, dirty way. Everyone in it is deliciously low and sleazy, and so underdressed in the blazing heat that they are just dying to strip. Read full review

  • 70
    Salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir

    Despite the lurid content, this is a beautifully made film that reaches for moral seriousness and resists facile judgments. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Crust

    The themes are all familiar and the plot unfolds slowly and in predictable ways, but there's plenty of heat generated by the three leads. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Deborah Young

    Though the storyline is dirt simple and not particularly meaningful or involving, the action in this character-driven film is scintillatingly sexy. Read full review

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    From its actual and figurative scenes of cockfighting to its copious use of throbbing Brazilian music, there's little here that rises above the level of formula. But director Machado displays a sure touch in his ability to convey the sultry atmosphere of his exotic setting, and he has elicited admirably naturalistic performances from his highly attractive, youthful performers. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    Machado establishes a realistically seamy environment for his erotic triangle, and there are some surprisingly tender moments amid the squalor. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe |

    Everyone involved in the film seems better than the material. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    The movie turns out to be a predictable and somewhat sentimental lower-depths love triangle, but Ms. Braga almost makes it work. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

    Two guys panting over the same babe leads to tedium, despite a near-record number of overheated sex scenes. Read full review

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