After a school fight lands 17-year old Daje Shelton in a court-supervised alternative high school, she's determined to turn things around and make a better future for herself in her rough St. Louis neighborhood. But focusing on school is tough as she loses multiple friends to gun violence, falls in love for the first time, and becomes pregnant with a boy, Ahkeem, just as Ferguson erupts a few miles down the road. Through Daje's intimate coming-of-age story, For Ahkeem illuminates challenges that many Black teenagers face in America today, and witnesses the strength, resilience, and determination it takes to survive.
For Ahkeem has generally received positive reviews.
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Review of For Ahkeem (2017)
By Michael Rechtshaffen (1,086) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 18 Oct 2017
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For Ahkeem was released in 2017 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 21 reviews, giving For Ahkeem (2017) an average rating of 70%.
Overall, film critics much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 82%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 20%. Professional critics enjoyed For Ahkeem far more than standard cinema audiences.
With a score of 70%, For Ahkeem is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2017, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2017 with similar scores include films like Beauty and the Beast, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and American Made.
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