The Game Is All-Consuming, at Least Until the Outside World Intrudes
‘Brooklyn Castle,’ Directed by Katie Dellamaggiore

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A scene from the documentary “Brooklyn Castle,” with students from Intermediate School 318.
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: October 18, 2012
The child chess champions in the irresistible documentary “Brooklyn Castle”
don’t take long, as one of these sweetpeas likes to say, to crush you.
Year after year, these big brains and little bodies at Intermediate
School 318 in Williamsburg win chess tournaments, and their winning
streak continues on screen. They are a remarkable, funny, inspiring, at
times devastating group. Through the eyes of the director Katie
Dellamaggiore, you come to know these children, their teachers and
parents as you witness their pulse-quickening matches and tears splashed
on the family dining-room table. There’s smiling uplift here, but the
road is seldom easy and sometimes brutal......
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