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Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight's leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
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| The PlaylistRobert DanielsCharm City Kings is beautiful and important, unabashedly Black, yet rarely traumatic, and almost always determined statement. Soto has crafted an incredible empathetic narrative, one mile of road at a time. |
| The A.V. ClubCarlos AguilarCharm City Kings distinguishes itself from similar fare not just through its location and eye-popping bikes but also with the believably imperfect people that populate it. |
| IndieWireEric KohnGuided by Angel Manuel Soto’s slick direction and a breakthrough performance from Jahi Di’Allo Winston, the movie works overtime to energize real-world struggles with the thrill of street life. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoIts abundance of plot contrivances in the final act and overly scripted dialogue hold it back from greatness, but two excellent performers overcome all of this familiarity. I can't want to see them again. |
| TimeStephanie ZacharekCharm City Kings lands on an elegiac, bittersweet note rather than a happy one, and doesn’t feature as many crazy, exhilarating bike stunts as you might hope. But in its view of a world where kids make their own fun and also, sometimes, their own bad choices, it rings true. Sometimes becoming a man is the hardest stunt to pull off. |
| Screen DailyAnthony KaufmanSure, the motorcycle wheelies are cool, but there’s nothing more intense than the raw emotion that comes from a mother trying to protect her child. |
| Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangCharm City Kings clearly knows what it’s doing; unfortunately, what it’s doing is often just as obvious to us. |
| The New York TimesManohla DargisThe dirt bikes and their exuberant operators are the saving grace — and joy — of the sincere if overstuffed drama Charm City Kings. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Sarah Tai-BlackOverall, it’s a film that is not great but just fine. Its biggest limitations are the ones it places on its own characters. |
| VarietyAmy NicholsonThe film’s truly ridiculous plot choices — the phony twists that make you leave the theater feeling like you’ve inhaled a tank of carbon monoxide — are its own invention, bolted onto a likable, if formulaic, charmer. |
