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« Friday morning movie roundup: Sept. 28 | Main | The Kingdom is the way to go »

Leave the guns. Take the 'Bullet.'

9:00 AM Fri, Sep 28, 2007 |  | 
Chris Vognar   E-mail   News tips
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It's hard out here for a frog: Manda Bala (City Lights Pictures))

The Kingdom isn't a bad movie, but it won't make you look at anything differently than you do now. If you wanna do that, check out Manda Bala, a wickedly structured little documentary about crime in Brazil. The subject has been widely covered, as fans of City of God can attest. But not with the ingenuity of this Sundance-award-winning doc, which folds frog farming, kidnapping and political corruption into one combustible package. The issues are captivating, but it's the tone and structure, borrowed from Oscar-winning doc maestro Errol Morris, that create a thick layer of mystery and humanity. If you're gonna emulate someone you might as well go to the top of the heap. This one does that with a bullet.

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