Foreign Parts (2010) NYT Critics' Pick

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A scene from “Foreign Parts,” a film about the Willets Point area of Queens, where cars, and their components, are kings.
A Patch of Rusty Paradise That Might Be Paved
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: March 9, 2011

It’s a safe bet that the Willets Point section of Queens, setting and subject of the new documentary “Foreign Parts,” does not figure in many New York tourist itineraries, though it has starred in a movie before, Ramin Bahrani’s “Chop Shop.” This battered stretch of junkyards and auto repair shops may thrive (or fester, depending on your point of view) in the shadow of Citi Field, but it seems a universe away from that gleaming corporate food court where the Mets occasionally win a baseball game. More