Kicks (2016)
When his hard-earned kicks get snatched by a local hood, fifteen-year old Brandon and his two best friends go on an ill-advised mission across the Bay Area to retrieve the stolen sneakers.
Kicks (2016)
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Released Year: 2016
Runtime: 80 minutes
Genre: Adventure
Directors: Justin Tipping
Casts: Mahershala Ali, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Tina Gilton, Molly Shaiken, Kofi Siriboe, Natalie Stephany Aguilar, Christopher Meyer, Jahking Guillory, Donté Clark, Dyendis Davis-Jones, Kyndall Ferguson
IMDB: Kicks (2016)
Storyline
When his hard-earned kicks get snatched by a local hood, fifteen-year old Brandon and his two best friends go on an ill-advised mission across the Bay Area to retrieve the stolen sneakers.
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Reviews
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The Playlist -
Tipping’s bold and meditative drama with its reflective moods and streetwise grime has delivered one of the best feature-length debuts of 2016 and one of the best films of the year, period.
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RogerEbert.com -
Kicks is knowing and innocent, profound and goofy.
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The New York Times -
The characters have enough dimension to avoid appearing to be symbols of a social tragedy, and the movie’s relative gentleness makes the harsher realities of Brandon’s world all the more distressing.
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IndieWire -
Guillory’s ability to embody the intensity of his obsession, despite its simplicity, speaks the commanding screen presence he’s immediately able to establish.
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The Hollywood Reporter -
First-time director Justin Tipping's finesse with dialogue and story is less developed than his visual sense. But if the movie is over-reliant on slo-mo, voiceover and almost wall-to-wall music to drive scenes, its silky blend of lyricism with urban grit marks it as a promising debu
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When his hard-earned kicks get snatched by a local hood, fifteen-year old Brandon and his two best friends go on an ill-advised mission across the Bay Area to retrieve the stolen sneakers.
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