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For Ahkeem uses one young woman's stirring story to offer a sobering reflection of the lives of many in modern America.
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"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. March 15, 2018 | Full Review…
"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.
Peter Keough
By simply documenting Deja's humanity, For Ahkeem offers a vivid example of the incontrovertible fact that black lives matter. December 15, 2017 | Rating: B | Full Review…
By simply documenting Deja's humanity, For Ahkeem offers a vivid example of the incontrovertible fact that black lives matter.
David Ehrlich
[For Ahkeem] is a compelling but often frustrating documentary, a microcosm of the struggles faced by many disadvantaged young people of color today. December 15, 2017 | Full Review…
[For Ahkeem] is a compelling but often frustrating documentary, a microcosm of the struggles faced by many disadvantaged young people of color today.
Leah Pickett
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. December 15, 2017 | Full Review…
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.
Jay Weissberg
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. December 1, 2017 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
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.
Adam Graham
A tenderly intimate, affecting documentary portrait ... October 19, 2017 | Full Review…
A tenderly intimate, affecting documentary portrait ...
Michael Rechtshaffen
For Ahkeem poignantly unfolds with all the accouterments of a narrative film. February 27, 2020 | Full Review…
For Ahkeem poignantly unfolds with all the accouterments of a narrative film.
Elissa Suh
Throughout the movie, there is one constant: Daje's smile. You can't help but want to keep rooting for her. March 21, 2018 | Full Review…
Throughout the movie, there is one constant: Daje's smile. You can't help but want to keep rooting for her.
Al Hoff
Excellent docu on teen's struggles in inner-city St. Louis. January 10, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Excellent docu on teen's struggles in inner-city St. Louis.
Brian Costello
Unadorned, urgent, [and] troublingly intimate. December 21, 2017 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Unadorned, urgent, [and] troublingly intimate.
Ray Pride
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. December 15, 2017 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
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.
Allyson Johnson
For Ahkeem is an essential insight into marginalized America. December 15, 2017 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
For Ahkeem is an essential insight into marginalized America.
Zach Hollwedel
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