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Street Fight

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Street Fight reviews
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8.8 User Score:

Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by:

Directed by: Marshall Curry

Release Date:
Theatrical: February 22, 2006
DVD: January 9, 2007

Running Time: 83 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

This documentary chronicles the bare-knuckles race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law School grad, and Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent and undisputed champion of New Jersey politics. (Marshall Curry Productions)

What The Critics Said

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100

The New Yorker David Denby

In brief, Marshall Curry, the young director of Street Fight, has hit the documentary jackpot: the movie will become the inescapable referent for media coverage of the new campaign. And rightly so.

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91

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

As one of Booker's supporters notes, it's a sad day when academic success is used to denigrate an African-American.

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90

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

This is classical activist filmmaking of the first order, a movie with the power to turn hearts, change minds and, just maybe, right the wayward course of an entire city.

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90

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

It's an electrifying, suspenseful film, full of street-level political drama.

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88

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Whether or not Street Fight wins the Academy Award Sunday night, Curry's picture is must-see fare for any and every observer of the curious world of American politics.

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88

TV Guide Ken Fox

It's a fascinating film, simultaneously enthralling, infuriating and guaranteed to make viewers ask how such a perversion of the political process could be taking place in America.

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80

Variety John Anderson

Curry's courage in the face of police harassment and what seems a very real threat of something worse is amazing.

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80

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

The story that first-time feature filmmaker Curry tells is extremely compelling, but where he really scores is in addressing politics and race in a way that allows events to speak for themselves.

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75

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Newark Mayor Sharpe James is the kind of politician that Tony Soprano would be happy to own.

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75

Boston Globe Sam Allis

Properly told, political underdog stories are as compelling as pratfalls from banana peels are funny. Each is timeless and carries an integrity impervious to cynicism.

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70

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

Although the film has a righteous heart, by focusing solely on government as showbiz, it's part of what it decries. Curry makes uproarious hay with the illegal shenanigans of incumbent mayor Sharpe James, but is that all there is? That said, Street Fight has enough cultural crosscurrents to fill out a novel.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Marc K. gave it a7:
Enjoyable, interesting, entertaining. A bit on the short side though. When Cory Booker becomes governor of NJ or a Senator of the United States, this film is going to get another look.

Mark J. gave it a9:
A highly inspiring political documentary, which focuses on the mayoral election in Newark. The events of this race allow Curry to address issues of race, poverty and political spin whilst documenting two fascinatingly opposite candidates. Sharpe James plays the joker to Cory Bookers' Batman and you can't help being drawn in to what feels like a battle of truth over lies, honesty over deciept, and good over evil. Fast, thrilling, engrossing, a must see!

[Anonymous] gave it an8:
Excellent documentary, fast paced, straightforward and totally convincing.

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