The Weinstein Company hosted an intimate dinner in TriBeCa for Brazilian director Jose Padilha's ("Bus 174") action drama "The Elite Squad," (Tropa de Elite) which is screening at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film centers on two childhood friends who decide to enlist in Rio de Janeiro's Military Police Department. After juggling their police jobs and college, both make up their minds to try out for a Special Operations Squad whose mission is to take down the drug-lords that plague the city. Both men struggle to survive, facing the daily challenges of dealing with pressure at home and fighting an unnamed war on the streets. The film has its critics and even Padilha was joking during the dinner that a Variety critic had labeled his film "fascist." "What bothers "Elite Squad"'s critics is the perceived glorification of Nascimento's kill-first, ask-later approach to crime fighting," writes Michael Gibbons for iW in a recent dispatch from Brazil for indieWIRE.