Street Fight
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  • Summary: 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)

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  1. Positive: 11 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: David Denby
    100
    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.
  2. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    91
    As one of Booker's supporters notes, it's a sad day when academic success is used to denigrate an African-American.
  3. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    90
    It's an electrifying, suspenseful film, full of street-level political drama.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Crust
    80
    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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  1. MarkJ.
    9
    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!… Expand
  2. [Anonymous]
    8
    Excellent documentary, fast paced, straightforward and totally convincing.
  3. MarcK.
    7
    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.… Expand

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