Na Entertainment Weekly, Liza Schwarzbaum faz um apanhado do Cannes Film Festival deste ano. Seu comentário sobre o filme brasileiro Carandirú:
” A lot of people also liked the hopped-up Brazilian prision drama Carandiru, by Kiss of the Spider Woman’s Hector Babenco, though I found it more a flashy TV-sized showpiece for its cooped-up violence than a power indictment of the Brazilian prision system. (“Haven’t you seen Oz on HBO?”I kept asking my colleagues, and none of them had. Huh?)”