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Minding the Gap
Directed by
Bing Liu
Not Rated
2018
1h 33m
Documentary
,
Sport
8.0
100%
90%
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Filmmaker Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern masculinity.
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Cast of Minding the Gap
Keire Johnson
Self
Zack Mulligan
Self
Bing Liu
Self / Director / Producer
Nina Bowgren
Self
Mengyue Bolen
Self
Diane Quon
Producer
Minding the Gap Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Though it runs just 93 minutes, this cinema-verite documentary by Bing Liu manages to feel like an epic.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The ambition of Minding the Gap is a bit beyond the reach of Liu. It may be that only a dramatic film artist could have done justice to this subject. But as a piece of cinematic self-therapy, fragmented though it is, it has few rivals.
Slate
Sam Adams
Minding the Gap becomes less a story about the ad hoc fraternity of skateboarders and more about the fractured home life that sends them looking for a surrogate family.
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar
The skateboarding footage is pretty stunning in its gracefulness ... a thrilling diversion from all the trouble we're witnessing, just as it is for the subjects themselves.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
The score by Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero is sparse and beautiful and perfect. The editing is brilliant.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Much of "Minding the Gap" is painful to witness, but as past and present intersect and recombine and Liu's wealth of footage coalesces, the finished film becomes a cautiously hopeful and even cathartic experience.
Variety
Peter Debruge
It's the movie Liu was born to make, the one he had to get off his chest before he could move on in his filmmaking career.
Vanity Fair
K. Austin Collins
In a world full of images...Bing's movie stands out for the complexity of its integrity, and its ability to reveal his own experiences empathically.
The Atlantic
Sophie Gilbert
The emotional intelligence Liu, Keire, and Zack demonstrate in their moments of self-analysis is what leaves Minding the Gap ending with something a lot like hope.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
Minding the Gap feels deceptively loose, even rambling, but as the seasons pass (the film takes place over four years), you begin to feel Liu's drive toward catharsis for all three of his main characters.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
"Minding the Gap" is a personal documentary of the highest sort, in which the film's necessity to the filmmaker-and its obstacles, its resistances, its emotional and moral demands on him-are part of its very existence.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
As such, it possesses an intimacy that could never be acquired without years of shared experience, and heartache. And probably road rash.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
It would be impressive even without the palpable sense of connection and understanding that Liu brings to the material, but its easygoing intimacy is what puts it over the top.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
It's heartbreaking, raw, and true. But it never veers into exploitation or becomes oppressively maudlin.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
An intelligent and compassionate grappling with some of the most painful issues presently haunting the body politic: toxic masculinity and domestic violence, economic depression and a deep, existential despair.
TheWrap
Robert Abele
What starts as a raucous celebration of youthful freedom consciously expands to cover the bonds of friendship, racial identity, the hard slog of being responsible, and the generational after-effects of trauma.
Austin Chronicle
Danielle White
There's something inexplicably soothing about the wide shots of the boys rolling along, spiraling down the levels of a parking garage or swerving around city streets at sunset.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
First-time filmmaker Bing Liu chronicles his (and his best friends') life on a skateboard in an unforgettable doc that takes on the joys and perils of young manhood in no-bull ways that will knock the wind out of you.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
With infinite sensitivity, Mr. Liu delves into some of the most painful and intimate details of his friends' lives and his own, and then layers his observations into a rich, devastating essay on race, class and manhood in 21st-century America.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
A layered, complex portrait of a group of broken young men (and one broken young woman) whose prospects in the seemingly dead-end town of Rockford, Ill., appear bleak.
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