TV scribe Sherman Payne's script is as predictable as they come...

Full Review | Original Score: D | Aug 30, 2021

The natural style and authentic locations add a great deal of excitement and purity to 'Charm City Kings.' I just wish the story weren't so predictable.

Full Review | Apr 22, 2021

[F]or all the energy both in front of and behind the camera, this thing rides the clutch way too much. It's not necessarily that it's disengaged; it's that it's so rocky.

Full Review | Oct 9, 2020

Despite some commendable character work and a couple of stand-out performances, however, much of Soto's film oscillates between routine and formula.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 8, 2020

Charm City Kings could be worse, but it's mediocre at best.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2020

[It's] hitting predictable beats like it was upshifting an ATV's gears, from getting sucked into the game to bad decisions and bodies dropping.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 8, 2020

Things happen and then more things happen, little of it surprising.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2020

At over two hours long, it drags considerably, never grabbing you and engaging you in its story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 7, 2020

By the time we get to the third or fourth terse, macho stand-off, you may find yourself thinking, "Hey, remember when this was a movie about people riding dirt bikes?"

Full Review | Oct 7, 2020

The film looks for an emotional payoff by continually upping the stakes of its main character's self-destructive short-term thinking.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 7, 2020

Unable to harness the story's potential, the filmmakers instead deliver a mostly canned movie that flatlines 20 minutes before it comes to an end.

Full Review | Jan 31, 2020

The film clangs like too many people took a wrench to the script.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jan 31, 2020