From 1998 to 2006, Booker lived in Brick Towers, one of the city's worst public housing buildings, which some accused to be a tactic for acceptance by his constituents.

As the election campaigns escalate, Booker receives endorsements from Spike Lee, Cornel West, and other prominent African American figures.

In one memorable scene, city police assault the documentary maker on a public sidewalk for filming the mayor, breaking the microphone off his camera in broad daylight in front of other journalists.

The site's consensus reads: "Street Fight takes an immersive ground-level look at a pivotal political race that proves illuminating, entertaining, and inspiring in equal measure".

[3] It was called "extraordinary" by David Denby (The New Yorker),[4] "vastly entertaining" by John Anderson (Variety),[5] and "filmmaking of the first order" by Scott Foundas (LA Weekly).