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.
Brooklyn Castle has generally received positive reviews.
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Brooklyn Castle was released in 2012 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 84 reviews, giving Brooklyn Castle (2012) an average rating of 73%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 88%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 76%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Brooklyn Castle than critics were.
With a score of 73%, Brooklyn Castle is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2012, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2012 with similar scores include films like Pitch Perfect, Flight and ParaNorman.
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