While reviewing, “Bus 174,” A. O. Scott of the New York Times writes, “The… [documentary] is so wrenching and absorbing that you can easily lose sight of the sophistication of its techniques. Using a combination of video taken for Brazilian television and ex post facto talking-head interviews, the filmmakers, Felipe Lacerda and José Padilha, have made a deceptively straightforward film that has the force of tragedy and the depth of first-rate investigative journalism.”

Read more about the film in Scott’s review here.