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The 2016 Indiewire Tribeca Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival “Good kid, mad city,” reads one of several intermittent chapter headings in “Kicks,” the debut feature from writer-director Justin Tipping. While the line paraphrases Kendrick Lamar, it aptly sums up the essence of Tipping’s slick, engaging drama about an inner-city […]
Given how the influence directors Spike Lee and John Singleton have had on millennial filmmakers — and given the extent to which new diversity-minded stories are aching to be told — it was only a matter of time before a whole new class of young black stories emerged. That idea, brewing for some time, may […]
When Justin Tipping was growing up in the Bay Area, he got the living shit beaten out of him over a pair of custom Nike Prestos. “I was alone in a parking lot at a movie theater that doesn’t exist anymore in West Oakland. I had just got my shoes, borrowed my dad’s car, and […]
Every year, the Tribeca Film Festival screens over 100 films. And every year, a few indie films shine brighter than the rest of the competition. This year, everyone is talking about ‘Kicks,’ a coming-of-age film about an inner-city boy and his two friends who embark on a harrowing journey to retrieve his stolen sneakers. Written […]
Kicks is 2016’s much darker version of Dope. Where the latter was filled to the brim with goofiness, the former portrays a kid’s struggle to be relevant in the grounded reality of poverty. About Brandon, a kid that dreams of owning a pair of Jordans, he finally saves up enough money to buy them. However, […]