Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318
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.
Secret Sunshine
Drama
7.2
Pandora's Promise
Documentary
6.9
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Animation, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
8.3
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
7.6
Blade Runner 2049
Science Fiction, Drama
7.6
Avengers: Endgame
Adventure, Science Fiction, Action
8.2
Halloween
Horror, Thriller
7.6
Tenet
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
7.2
Saw X
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
7.2
Guardians of the Galaxy
Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
7.9
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Comedy, Romance
7.6
Mirai
Animation, Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Drama
7.2
Her
Romance, Science Fiction, Drama
7.9
The Devil All the Time
Crime, Drama, Thriller
7.2
Barbie
Comedy, Adventure
7.0
Joker
Crime, Thriller, Drama
8.1
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Action, Crime
6.9
Happy Death Day
Comedy, Horror, Mystery
6.7
The 5th Wave
Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
5.9
Bullet Train
Action, Comedy, Thriller
7.4