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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Oct 2012

It's a wonderful documentary look at an astonishingly successful public-school chess program that manages to be more moving and heartening…

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By Kayla Webley (1) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 22 Oct 2012

Beyond telling the touching stories of these unlikely champions, Brooklyn Castle serves to raise a battle cry for funding for after-school programs…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Beliefnet (937) on 22 Oct 2012

There is much of what you expect -- gifted kids, dedicated teacher, tense anticipation, thrilling victories…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 19 Oct 2012

The feel-good documentary is engaging enough to draw a respectable audience at arthouses, but distribs should work for exposure within communities…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Oct 2012

As inspirational academic stories go, it doesn't get much better than this…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 18 Oct 2012

Brooklyn Castle is an engaging tale, and the principal is wrong: These kids are much more lovable than the Yankees…

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By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Oct 2012

It pays to consider even the small details of society's greatest investment in the future: our future generations…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 17 Oct 2012

A sweet testament to the power of intelligence to win over adversity - even in a Brooklyn middle school where the majority of students live…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 17 Oct 2012

It's deeply satisfying watching these public school, hard-knock kids win, and Ms. Dellamaggiore knows it…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 17 Oct 2012

It honestly makes no difference if you don't even know the rules of chess and have never visited New York; this is a story about human potential…

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By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Oct 2012

We also gain a keen sense of how chess in particular helps otherwise academically challenged kids find a way into their own brains…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Oct 2012

Indifferently structured but centered around charming characters, the documentary starts off as a chronicle of the scholastic chess year, but…

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By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Oct 2012

It subtly makes the connection between the simple equation that investment in our children will give dividends that go far beyond any sort…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 16 Oct 2012

A great subject goes a long way in this standard but effective entry in the amazing-kids documentary category…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 15 Oct 2012

If the film occasionally bumps up against the limitations of its Spellbound-like template, its refusal to ignore the social issues outside…

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By Jennifer Merin (124) for About.com (1,470) on 14 Oct 2012

This engaging, entertaining film might just spur you to become involved in some way in making sure that important and productive public school…

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By Linda Holmes (61) for NPR (1,713) on 14 Oct 2012

It would be easy for this film to be a very obvious, very shallow story in which the moral is that even kids from the worst possible circumstances…

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By Christopher Campbell (291) for Movies.com (1,002) on 19 Mar 2012

I might have preferred less of the focus on winning and losing and more on the cause, which I find strange coming from me, since I rarely am…

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By Kevin Kelly (9) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 17 Mar 2012

It's a heartwarming look at the exact reason why we need to fund after-school programs and give more attention to the arts…

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