Minding the Gap

... its easygoing intimacy is what puts it over the top.

With its loose observational style, “Minding the Gap” plays like a grittier variation on Michael Apted’s “7 Up” series...

...a remarkable coming-of-age documentary.

Its skating sequences are impressive, but it’s the intimate examinations of fracturing friendships and emerging adulthood that make Minding The Gap surprisingly resonant.

...a picture of the struggling working class and all its woes: shit jobs, shut-offs from the electric company, depression, toxic masculinity, and, most especially, domestic abuse.

What was initially a lighthearted snapshot of bruised knees and broken boards suddenly becomes an intimate portrait of bruised psyches and broken homes.