City of God (2002)

Yes. 90% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 85%.

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime. Wikipedia ↗

City of God is a 2002 Brazilian crime drama directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, based on Paulo Lins's semi-autobiographical 1997 novel about life in the Cidade de Deus, a notoriously violent housing project in Rio de Janeiro. The film spans three decades, from the 1960s through the 1980s, chronicling the escalation of gang violence through the eyes of Rocket, a young aspiring photographer who grows up surrounded by drug dealers, murderers, and corrupt police officers but uses his camera to document the madness rather than participate in it. Fernando Meirelles employed a kinetic, innovative visual style — rapid editing, freeze-frames, split screens, saturated color grading, and non-linear storytelling — that reflected the chaotic energy of the favela and drew comparisons to the early work of Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino.

The film cast actual residents of Rio's favelas in many roles, lending an authenticity that professional actors could not have replicated. City of God received four Academy Award nominations including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay and earned $30 million worldwide, an extraordinary figure for a Portuguese-language film. The film is widely considered one of the greatest crime films ever made and the defining work of Brazilian cinema for international audiences.