SummarySince 1925 the Streit’s matzo factory has sat in a low-slung tenement building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. While other matzo companies have modernized, Streit’s remained a piece of living history, churning out 40 percent of the nation’s unleavened bread on pre-War machinery as old as the factory itself. In a neighborhood where the Jewish immi... Read More
Directed By:Michael Levine
Written By:Michael Levine
Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream
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Apr 21, 2016
80
This gripping documentary about unleavened bread and the people who need it asks us to consider what we in the world owe one another — and demands that we do better.
Apr 21, 2016
63
The movie was always going to be a record of another unique New York institution, making way for another glass box.
Apr 21, 2016
60
The documentary will nonetheless strike an emotional chord with anyone who's grown up eating the product it celebrates. And over the course of 100 years, that's a lot of matzos.
Apr 21, 2016
50
Despite much talk of diversity and tradition, Mr. Levine has little fresh to say about gentrification issues or documentary storytelling.
Apr 18, 2016
50
Michael Levine provides a history without a real sense of individuated struggle or even singular personage.
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