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Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318
Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I...
Documentary - 2012
Brooklyn Castle
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Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.

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Rated:
PG
Runtime:
101 min
Release date:
19 Oct 2012
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$219,407
Awards:
3 wins & 3 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

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Brooklyn Castle does a superb job of celebrating the triumph while reinforcing the relentless vigilance it requires from everyone involved.
– David Hinckley,
New York Daily News,
7 Oct 2013
fresh:
Brooklyn Castle is inspiring stuff that grabs you by the throat and will leave you cheering - quietly of course. No shouting in a chess match.
– Linda Barnard,
Toronto Star,
28 Mar 2013
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There's a general spirit of triumph and perseverance to "Brooklyn Castle" that's inevitably uplifting.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
1 Mar 2013
fresh:
"Brooklyn Castle" easily checkmates your inner cynic.
– Walter V. Addiego,
San Francisco Chronicle,
15 Nov 2012
fresh:
Katie Dellamaggiore's lively and affecting documentary introduces us to a cast of characters that's very winning (in both senses of the word).
– Mark Feeney,
Boston Globe,
15 Nov 2012
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