Documentary about the turbulent lives of a group of young Illinois-based skateboarders.
Its skating sequences are impressive, but it’s the intimate examinations of fracturing friendships and emerging adulthood that make Minding The Gap surprisingly resonant.
It's an essential, remarkable documentary that's sure to be one of the year's best. Don't miss it.
A profound study of youth, adulthood and the space in between.
This is a fluent, watchable piece of work, though not quite as lucid as it might have been. A poignant tribute, at any rate, to the lost innocence of skateboarding.
It’s the tenderness and compassion that Liu brings to his friends’ stories, as well as the brave, sensitive way he confronts his own past, that marks this out as something special.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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