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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 04 Sep 2018

There's a heavy, hollowed-out kind of hope at the heart of this on-the-fly exercise in visual diary-keeping…

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By Kyle Kizu (27) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 03 Sep 2018

Minding the Gap is a harrowing portrait of trauma and abuse, and a hypnotic rumination on what it means to film, be filmed, and see yourself in film…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 29 Aug 2018

It's a shared story of pain and, ultimately, hope, told with compassion and urgency…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 29 Aug 2018

The editing is brilliant, as we jump back in forth in time, seeing these three as kids and then as young men, marveling at their skateboard…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 29 Aug 2018

Minding the Gap is an exceptionally reflective examination of the 29-year-old filmmaker’s life, and surroundings, and it works because the…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 26 Aug 2018

It's startlingly reflective, not only because it contradicts the first impression of bro bonhomie but for the onscreen vulnerability…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 23 Aug 2018

Minding the Gap honors the pain of these young men’s lives so fully, it earns the right to conclude with the equivalent of a perfectly executed…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue (704) on 23 Aug 2018

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 22 Aug 2018

In a world full of images—full of people recording themselves and their friends doing dumb shit, or documenting attractive versions of themselves—Bing’s…

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By Sophie Gilbert (39) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 20 Aug 2018

Liu’s intimacy with his subjects becomes contagious, to the point where their small victories are thrilling and their failures feel devastating…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 20 Aug 2018

It exists because 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…

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By Christopher Campbell (291) for Thrillist (209) on 19 Aug 2018

Part memoir, part social problem film, Minding the Gap is a treasure of a documentary…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 17 Aug 2018

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,…

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By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for 48 Hills (18) on 16 Aug 2018

Gap is ultimately about considerably more, and carries the bigger punch…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 16 Aug 2018

Its easygoing intimacy is what puts it over the top…

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By Joe Reid (103) for Decider (264) on 16 Aug 2018

This is one of the best and most affecting documentaries of the year... a tightly focused story that is both unnerving and empathetic at once…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 16 Aug 2018

The skateboarding and camaraderie are contrapuntal notes, liberating flurries of motion in a powerful saga of kids who were — and in some…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 16 Aug 2018

As such, it possesses an intimacy that could never be acquired without years of shared experience, and heartache. And probably road rash…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 16 Aug 2018

One of the year's great, small treasures, Bing Liu's extraordinary documentary Minding the Gap is like a deluxe skateboarding video, yet so much more…

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By Luke Hicks (31) for Nonfics (197) on 15 Aug 2018

A piercing excavation of the wide-reaching pain caused by domestic abuse…

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