The script is so utterly pointless and offers little to no probative value other than to set up a franchise without a care or a thought into the current movie they were making.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 16, 2022

Kin is at its best when the Baker brothers engage in sharp and ruthless action, whereas the screenplay's attempt to imbue the material with gravitas fails to create the requisite substance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 11, 2022

The film simply delivers a gripping, focused story that skillfully intertwines styles while somehow competently sticking the landing

| Jul 28, 2021

Kin remains faithful to the portrayal of a lonely Black boy, whose discovery of a mysterious weapon allows him to become something of a superhero.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 16, 2021

It's consistently serious, which is a spectacular way to allow audiences to digest the outrageousness of hi-tech alien weaponry.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 7, 2020

Kin is an atrocious marriage of bad acting and laughable writing...

| Nov 10, 2020

Kin is incredibly rough and detached, holding too much in its peripherals but nothing directly in sight.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 25, 2020

A solid, worthy adventure tale. Kin certainly has its issues, but leaving us hanging is not one of them, despite what may be your initial reaction to the end of the film.

| Jun 23, 2020

[A] slightly-above-Netflix quality film with enough heart and style.

| Mar 19, 2020

Mostly works, despite some occasionally thudding B-movie dialogue.

| Mar 4, 2020

The new film "Kin" wants to be many things: a sci-fi fantasy, a road trip comedy, a coming-of-age story, and a brutal actioner. At times, it succeeds in individually essaying all of them, but taken as a whole, the film is quite a mess.

| Oct 18, 2019

Kin is a movie that never should have been made.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 14, 2019

James Franco is excellent as the stereotypical sleazy dirtbag. As an actor, he is a chameleon who always delivers on screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2019

The 80s feel that the film tries to imprint feels false. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 17, 2019

The elusive representation of an alien duel in an abandoned factory and the first zenithal planes show a clear unfulfilled promise. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 17, 2019

Well-intentioned. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2019

This laser gun story misfires.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Clearly the work of talented filmmakers with unique sensibilities, but it ultimately paints itself into a dramatic corner from which it never quite figures a way out.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 3, 2019

Would've best been presented as a Netflix series of sorts instead of the overly stuffed, uneven science-fiction-come-road-drama it ultimately plays out as

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 1, 2019

Despite the calibre of some of the performances, and however fresh and novel some of the cinematography and pacing, it's difficult to recommend Kin because of its central premise.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 16, 2019