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Kokomo City
Directed by
D. Smith
R
2023
73m
Documentary
7.1
99%
71%
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A raw depiction of the lives of four black trans sex workers as they confront the dichotomy between the black community and themselves.
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Cast of Kokomo City
Daniella Carter
Self
Dominique Silver
Self
Koko Da Doll
Self
Liyah Mitchell
Self
Bancroft Fitzgerald
Self
Lexx Pharaoh
Self
Bebe Smith
Self
Michael Carlos Jones
Self
Colt Walker
Self
Rebecca Elise Torner
Self
INW Tarxan
Self
Rich-Paris
Self
James Tony
Self
XoTommy
Self
Jason Allen
Self
Kokomo City Ratings & Reviews
Harper's Bazaar
Tomris Laffly
As a Black and trans filmmaker, Smith refreshingly creates the space for [her subjects] to be provocative, raw and daringly glamorous in her taboo-breaking work filmed in gleaming black-and-white and edited with a fiery spirit.
Autostraddle
Drew Gregory
I hope we see more films from D. Smith soon because this is an assured and confident debut.
Variety
Peter Debruge
This doc rocks, using music to set the tempo for its snappy mix of head-turning talking heads, tongue-in-cheek reenactments and outside-the-box supporting visuals.
The Hollywood Reporter
Lovia Gyarkye
The principal participants - Daniella Carter, Dominique Silver, Koko Da Doll and Liyah Mitchell - are an electric bunch, and the diversity of their testimonies propels this worthwhile project into refreshing, uninhibited territory.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
A raucous compilation of charismatic storytellers gathered in the most lively way possible.
indieWire
Jude Dry
Smith's music and photography instincts carry the film cinematically, but the real stars of Kokomo City are its honest and dynamic subjects.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
It only gestures toward an exploration of who its male subjects are both because its visual language, as exciting as it is, calls so much attention to itself, subsuming everything else, and because there's only so much that the men are willing to share.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Filmed in silky black and white, Kokomo City favors images of its heroines primping, posing and lounging languidly while they relate their home truths, but Smith keeps the beauty shots moving with quick asides, animations, neon-yellow screen titles.
New York Times
Teo Bugbee
This is not a maudlin film; instead it is a movie with heroines who fight tooth and nail for their lives and their self-worth.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
A blast of creative freedom.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Four transgender sex workers in New York and Georgia talk with great candor and insight about their profession, dreams and lives in D. Smith's B&W eye opener of a documentary.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
Smith presents the danger as the cumulative effect of being trans and Black and a sex worker in America... Smith doesn't blanch at the sexual, either in conversation or visuals, but that's exactly the kind of earnestness the topic requires.
Los Angeles Times
Michael Rechtshaffen
Kokomo City provides a humanizing, inclusive way forward.
Chicago Reader
Brooks Eisenbise
A triumphant and impactful directorial debut for D. Smith with the staying power of Paris Is Burning, Kokomo City asks us what it means to be at peace with ourselves and what we're willing to sacrifice to get there.
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Jonathan P. Higgins, Ed.D.
Some might watch this film and say it's a little raunchy from beginning to end. I say if it makes you uncomfortable, then D. Smith did her job.
Film Obsessive
Tina Kakadelis
Kokomo City is an angry, passionate, proud declaration of taking up space in a world that has taken away the agency of these women.
Third Coast Review
Steven Prokopy
Kokomo City is that welcome achievement that more than holds its own as a well-made addition to the genre and swings open the doors on a world well worth stepping into and celebrating.
People's World
Chauncey K. Robinson
Kokomo City is bursting with energy that makes it engrossing even when the narrative feels a bit scattered at times. It doesn't attempt to tie the topic into a neat bow at the end, which will leave the audience with a lot to digest once the credits roll.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Tim Cogshell
A very interesting film about a sliver of the trans community.
The Reader (Omaha, NE)
Ryan Syrek
In simply making this community "real" to those who had previously only had abstract understandings, it is a thoroughly compelling and noteworthy way to spend a little over an hour.
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