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Sandra is pregnant and wants a girl. Her husband Marcos wants a soccer player.
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| The PlaylistRodrigo PerezTipping’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. |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyKicks is knowing and innocent, profound and goofy. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzAs the young hero at the centre of the tale, Guillory displays astonishing depth and heart. To summarize: Run, don’t walk. |
| Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiBrandon’s odyssey, filtered through Tipping’s lens, is at times funny, harrowing, and well, somewhat annoying (way too much slow-mo), but the talent here is clear. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe 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. |
| IndieWireEric KohnGuillory’s ability to embody the intensity of his obsession, despite its simplicity, speaks the commanding screen presence he’s immediately able to establish. |
| The Film StageMichael SnydelTipping is a fresh voice who has already established a great sense of atmosphere, and more importantly, he’s shown that he can tell stories about a more stereotypically black experience with nuance. |
| VarietyAndrew BarkerAn arresting visual experience, Kicks has style to spare, and in fact it probably should have spared a little, as this first-time director sometimes crowds his film with more auteurial flourishes than his rather simple story can support. Nonetheless, this is a debut of undeniable promise, both for its director and its largely unknown cast. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFirst-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 |
| The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerHere is a film that manages to be observant without being especially insightful—without deepening thematically beyond the observation that inner city life can still be really, really lousy for everyone involved. |