The documentary is simple and strong and small. Its grit lifts it above its mechanical shortcomings.
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03/03/06
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:20
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8/10
Theatrical Release:Feb 22, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Director Michael Curry takes a look at the 2002 Mayoral race in Newark, New Jersey, in this documentary. With the incumbent, Sharpe James, resorting to dirty tricks to prevent his challenger, Cory... [More]
Director: Marshall Curry
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Reviews for Street Fight
Top CriticIt's a hard, fast film that needs airing now, or at least before the Newark elections of 2006.
02/22/06
Top CriticThere's no question which side Curry favors, but he turns Street Fight into an old fashioned political yarn, featuring hand-pumping and baby-kissing, but also a dash of blood fury.
03/09/06
[An] unpretentious and absorbing video doc.
02/22/06
Top Critican amazing work, thrilling and informative in equal amounts, reminding us that democracy isn't just fought over on message boards and foreign battlegrounds, but also on our very streets
03/14/06
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.
02/24/06
Top CriticIn brief, Marshall Curry, the young director of Street Fight, has hit the documentary jackpot.
02/28/06
Top CriticThis 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.
02/23/06
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.
02/24/06
"...completely gripping and enraging."
01/19/09
A tough and brave little documentary about the brutal 2002 Newark mayoral election.
02/22/06
Top CriticJames is his own worst enemy in the documentary, behaving in public as a near caricature of Boss Tweed. But he won and is now serving out his fifth term.
02/24/06
Top CriticIt's utterly fascinating, and if you don't follow New Jersey politics, you will be kept in the dark about the outcome of this 2002 race almost to the end.
04/21/06
a primer for any aspiring politician to see the worst of what he can expect
01/31/07
If you didn't already realize that politics can be a dirty business, then Marshall Curry's Oscar-nominated documentary will set you straight.
03/02/06
[Marshall] Curry's picture is must-see fare for any and every observer of the curious world of American politics.
03/03/06
Top CriticIt's essential viewing to prove to yourself that you're not so cynical after all.
04/20/06
It's kind of reassuring to see good old-fashioned dirty politics practiced with as much gusto as they are in the Oscar-nominated documentary Street Fight.
02/24/06
Street Fight sputters with anger and despair at the durability of dumb-cluck demagoguery in American politics.
02/22/06
Top CriticBooker and James square-off for a heavyweight political fight reminiscent of Holyfield vs. Tyson, except for the eating of ears.
01/19/07
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