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    Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

    Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.
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  • Critic Reviews of "Citizen Jane: Battle for the City"

    Detroit News
    June 02, 2017

    Tyrnauer uses a ton of archival footage to tell his story, and brings it in at a brisk 92 minutes.

    Boston Globe
    June 01, 2017

    She was also one tough cookie who appreciated a good fight. A bit more internal tussle would have both better honored her spirit and made for a better documentary.

    Chicago Reader
    May 25, 2017

    Most good documentaries are powered by conflict, and you couldn't ask for a struggle more elemental or relevant to our time than the one chronicled in Citizen Jane: Battle for the City.

    Minneapolis Star Tribune
    May 11, 2017

    This straightforward and bracingly optimistic documentary explains the ways that shaping politics and wielding power can ease urban decline or inflate it.

    Washington Post
    May 04, 2017

    The movie is scored like a thriller, seemingly building to some terrifying conclusion. And, in a way, it does ...

    Philadelphia Inquirer
    May 03, 2017

    In the context of today's stymied political trench wars, there is inspiration to be found in Jacobs' example of local activism, original thinking, and rational argument blossoming into useful change.

    The Sunday Age
    June 30, 2017

    A bracing, insightful study of how cities are made and sometimes destroyed.

    Austin Chronicle
    June 29, 2017

    Like his previous film, Valentino: The Last Emperor, about the famous fashion designer, director Matt Tyrnauer takes on a fascinating subject yet mostly consolidates existing information without adding much to our knowledge base.

    Salt Lake Tribune
    June 22, 2017

    A plucky intellectual takes on New York's most powerful builder in Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, an engrossing documentary that details a historical conflict that is being repeated around the world today.

    Irish Times
    June 14, 2017

    A timely warning against big-block buildings with empty ground-floor shop units, nonetheless.

    Mark Reviews Movies
    May 11, 2017

    [It] feels like a visualized term paper.

    The Film Stage
    May 11, 2017

    It's his depiction of the adversarial relationship between those making decisions and those affected by them that hits home.

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