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Minding the Gap

2018

Bing Liu

Documentary

7.0

385

Documentary Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.

	Author	Review
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"An unpredictable, twisty character study (...) The camerawork feels free and improvisational, but never thoughtless and unstudied."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A pleasure of 'Minding the Gap', [an] astonishing debut feature, is to observe how skating and filmmaking flow together."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"[There’s] something deeply resonant in the way Liu captures a time when young men are both child and adult"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] beautifully charts how we look at modern masculinity (...) You can’t wait to see what Liu is going to do next (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Lovely and personal (...) It contains a staggering degree of maturity for a movie directed and focused on such young subjects"	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"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."	POS
United States	Bilge Ebiri Village Voice	"The film is filled with lengthy, sensuous skateboarding scenes, which feel meditative, therapeutic"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Despite Liu’s camera-shyness, he doesn’t hesitate to hit his subjects with direct, deeply personal questions"	POS
United States	John Anderson The Washington Post	"It possesses an intimacy that could never be acquired without years of shared experience, and heartache. And probably road rash."	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"It’s heartbreaking, raw, and true. But it never veers into exploitation or becomes oppressively maudlin."	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"[A] gritty and raw film by Bing Liu (...) The score by Halpern and Ruggiero is sparse and beautiful and perfect. The editing is brilliant.(…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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