For the engaged and interested, Citizen Jane is a worthy documentary about one of the twentieth century's least referenced activist struggles.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 24, 2020

A film like Citizen Jane feels quite timely as an illustration of common sense and the truth winning out of unbridled abuse of power

| May 7, 2020

I'm with her.

| Aug 12, 2019

Building only anticlimactically, what it needed (ironically) was better planning. This film's message is vital; sadly the film itself isn't.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2019

Ripe with Jacobs' more relevant than ever before insight and woven with her winningly abrasive personality, Tyrnauer's archive heavy construction is as rich and rewarding as the cities his subject once dreamed of.

| Dec 5, 2018

... Everything we argue about today has direct callbacks to the concerns Jacobs raised more than 50 years ago.

| Dec 19, 2017

Citizen Jane shows that it is possible to come out victorious-even if said victory is only a Pyrrhic one.

| Nov 3, 2017

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City is an unlikely redefinition of the story of David versus Goliath.

| Original Score: A | Sep 12, 2017

Guess what? You can fight City Hall. Matt Tyrnauer's excellent documentary, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, shows how it's done, a call to arms that could not be more timely in this chaotic political moment.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 11, 2017

Citizen Jane stands as a tribute to Jacobs and an encouragement to those who believe that lively, enriching serendipity -- which may look like chaos -- never should be planned out of existence.

| Aug 30, 2017

Their entertaining slugfest is played against the larger backdrop over the battle of visions about what makes a great city.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2017

While Citizen Jane is prescribed by a very specific time and place, it does offer up some tactics for the continuing struggle to preserve the idea that cities should be for everyone and not simply those who can afford to live there.

| Jul 20, 2017

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 1, 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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2017

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2017

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

| Original Score: B | Jun 2, 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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 1, 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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 25, 2017

[It] feels like a visualized term paper.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 11, 2017