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For Ahkeem
Directed by
Jeremy S. Levine
,
Landon Van Soest
Not Rated
2017
89m
Documentary
,
Indie
6.7
96%
65%
6.0
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A junior high school student sees her chances of a better future jeopardized after she gets in a fight and is expelled.
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Cast of For Ahkeem
Jeremy S. Levine
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Landon Van Soest
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For Ahkeem Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
"For Ahkeem" ... reminds white audiences that it is not enough to agree that black lives matter, but that it is also necessary to try and understand how black lives are lived.
Common Sense Media
Brian Costello
Excellent docu on teen's struggles in inner-city St. Louis.
Newcity
Ray Pride
Unadorned, urgent, [and] troublingly intimate.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
By simply documenting Deja's humanity, For Ahkeem offers a vivid example of the incontrovertible fact that black lives matter.
The Playlist
Allyson Johnson
A stark look at institutionalized racism and a system actively working against you, For Ahkeem, uses the personal - a young woman's success and coming into her own- to complete a bigger, often somber picture.
Chicago Reader
Leah Pickett
[For Ahkeem] is a compelling but often frustrating documentary, a microcosm of the struggles faced by many disadvantaged young people of color today.
Under the Radar
Zach Hollwedel
For Ahkeem is an essential insight into marginalized America.
Variety
Jay Weissberg
For Ahkeem doesn't present anything new, but perhaps there's no need to: Its focus on one young woman struggling to graduate implicitly says that no matter how common the story, every person matters.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Levine and Van Soest are on top of their subjects with a startling familiarity and shoot in such a clean, unfiltered style that at times you question if they're working from a script or if their subjects are actors.
Washington City Paper
Tricia Olszewski
For Ahkeem strikes a hopeful chord.
Los Angeles Times
Michael Rechtshaffen
A tenderly intimate, affecting documentary portrait ...
Washington Post
Christopher Kompanek
The story that is told here, with such heartbreaking clarity, is an important one, but it is hard to watch.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
About as close as documentaries come to putting us inside the mind of someone who society easily overlooks.
BET.com
Clay Cane
The movie isn't explicitly message heavy but by telling the story of Daje without reality show-type finagling, there is a clear message to see people beyond their stats, voting demographics and segments on cable news.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
While the film ends at a logical stopping point, it feels incomplete. It probably could have used a few more years of filming.
Village Voice
Danny King
A rich, inspiring, and at times infuriating evocation of Daje's inner life.
Slant Magazine
Elise Nakhnikian
The weight of the systemic racism they experience is crushing enough to make it hard to imagine that Daje and Antoine will be able to offer their son any more opportunities than they have themselves.
The Film Stage
John Fink
An illuminating film about poverty that one hopes can be a call for action even if the film itself doesn't directly encourage advocacy.
Shadow and Act
Aramide Tinubu
For Ahkeem is a visual diary, capturing the final days of adolescence on film. It's a compelling film story about life's unexpected curveballs.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
A poignant snapshot of black struggle that humanizes a range of social issues through the first-hand experiences of one young woman.
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