It's made with great authority; director Stacy Peralta, in his younger years, rode ramps with the best of them and was the movement's shrewdest self-promoter.

| Mar 16, 2020

You want to know more about their private lives than you get. But most viewers may be too stoked by the sheer adrenaline rush of the subject to care.

| Nov 1, 2007

Package is lively, if loosely structured.

Full Review | Apr 2, 2007

This propulsive, highly satisfying 2002 documentary concerns a group of daredevil skateboarders from an economically depressed and dangerous area of Santa Monica known as Dogtown who reinvented the sport in the 70s.

| Apr 2, 2007

Infectiously exuberant.

| Jan 26, 2006

Quite possibly the best documentary about youth and sport since Hoop Dreams.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 23, 2002

Few sports films catch their time, place and sport so well.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2002

It's impossible not to admire his joie de vivre -- and this movie's joie de vivre, as well.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 11, 2002

Although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants, Dogtown and Z-Boys has a compelling story to tell.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 24, 2002

This is pop history that blows your hair back.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2002

Blatant promotion aside, the chronicles of Dogtown make for fascinating insider cultural history.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2002

Enormously enjoyable, high-adrenaline documentary.

| Jun 1, 2002

An exhilarating, breathless, must-see chronicle of the skateboarder revolution and evolution.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2002

This engrossing, definitive documentary on the birth of Southern California's outlaw skateboarding culture is a jaw-dropping piece of work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2002

When these guys were headed down the street at 50 m.p.h., you got out of the way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 10, 2002

The film has an infectious enthusiasm and we're touched by the film's conviction that all life centered on that place, that time and that sport.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 10, 2002

Even if you couldn't care less about skateboarding, Dogtown and Z-boys serves up an intriguing slice of American culture.

Full Review | May 6, 2002

The problem is that Peralta wants it all, and that it doesn't all add up.

| May 4, 2002

Watch this, and the next time you see the X Games or a skateboarding video game commercial, you'll think of the Z-boys and how it all began.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 3, 2002

The rare and wondrous nonfiction film that transcends its subject to become a thing of beauty in itself, a slice of pop-cultural history that shimmers with life.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 3, 2002