
Fifteen-year-old Brandon longs for a pair of the freshest sneakers that money can buy, assuming that merely having them on his feet will help him escape the reality of being poor, neglected by the opposite sex and picked on by everyone - even his best friends. Working hard to get them, he soon finds that the titular shoes have instead made him a target after they are promptly snatched by Flaco, a local hood. Brandon goes on a mission to retrieve his stolen sneakers.... (Full plot summary below)
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Fifteen-year-old Brandon longs for a pair of the freshest sneakers that money can buy, assuming that merely having them on his feet will help him escape the reality of being poor, neglected by the opposite sex and picked on by everyone - even his best friends. Working hard to get them, he soon finds that the titular shoes have instead made him a target after they are promptly snatched by Flaco, a local hood. Brandon goes on a mission to retrieve his stolen sneakers.
Leave your thoughts about Kicks.
| Baret NewsKam WilliamsA tentative tale of woe every bit as bleak as it is hopeful that there's an exit at the other end of a disturbingly dystopic tunnel. |
| CinemacyMorgan RojasWhen Kicks is able to find the right balance between narrative emotion and spectacle, the result is one powerful piece of work. |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyKicks is knowing and innocent, profound and goofy. |
| 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. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd JorgensonThe raw authenticity demonstrates with heartfelt conviction how innocent youngsters become caught in cycles of inner-city poverty and violence, and it doesn't offer easy answers. |
| Shadow and ActAramide TinubuStill, what Tipping masters perfectly in the film is the constant ebb and flow of humor, and darkness, that runs through the narrative that is inner city boyhood. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Common Sense MediaSandie Angulo ChenPoignant, mature indie drama about a teen and his sneakers. |