Filled with colorful, articulate neighborhood champions, this absorbing picture eschews militant outrage for a quietly devastating look at social commodification.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
As a paean to the sort of vibrant, quickly disappearing community that Brooklyn represents less now than it did in the past, her film works well; as a genuine study, it sometimes falls short.
My Brooklyn, Kelly Anderson's sensitive study of gentrification in her home borough, is as much personal essay as urban-policy survey.
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine
A thoughtful piece of documentary journalism that synecdochically uses the controversial redevelopment of the Fulton Street Mall to talk about the process of gentrification.
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
When Anderson allows the experts - or simply those most deeply impacted by the changes - to speak, the film has a powerful urgency.