Moselle's style of filmmaking is so unobtrusive we almost forget Skate Kitchen is a movie and believe we are in the skate park, zooming up the ramps, executing tricky spins, and getting up after being knocked down.

| Sep 30, 2021

An evocative meditation on skateboarding culture and nascent womanhood.

| Mar 4, 2020

At best, though, Skate Kitchen is less about trying to get anywhere or make sense of anything than it is about the casual joy of being young, free and immersed in the moment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2019

I can't shake the inkling that it would've worked better as straight documentary.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2018

Moselle is famous for her documentary The Wolfpack. Skate Kitchen isn't quite a documentary but it's not exactly a drama either.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2018

A minor-key coming-of-age triumph that manages to simultaneously be relatable and wildly distinctive. Will almost certainly have lapsed, adult skateboarders (unwisely) dusting down their decks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2018

Skate Kitchen is a wonderfully lyrical and well-observed rites of passage story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2018

Repeated dopey exchanges...are poorly delivered by bratty exhibitionists in a stagnant narrative.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2018

Authentic and dreamily shot - yet smartly edited - Skate Kitchen is the kind of movie you feel infinitely more hip just for watching.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2018

If a breeze blowing through New York City decided to make a film, it would be Skate Kitchen. Nearly every moment here, of camerawork or character play, is wistfully, blissfully fluid.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 26, 2018

Gives its audience a sense of the almost pastoral innocence of skateboarding, its devotion to nothing more or less than having fun: a subversive urban vocation that is devoted to the art of pleasure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2018

A mobilising portrait of sisterhood and skate culture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2018

Less a movie than a visually striking meditation on Being a Girl These Days.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2018

Skate Kitchen feels like those final summer nights before school started again, aimless and sticky and wide-open and perfect because your friends were there. It's evocative and entrancing.

| Aug 29, 2018

"Skate Kitchen" conveys the simple, exhilarating thrill of daring to claim social space, and proceeding to occupy it, with defiance and ecstatic grace.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2018

In Skate Kitchen, the kids come as they are, and they're wildly fascinating.

| Aug 17, 2018

I was impressed by the tonal and aesthetic balance that Crystal Moselle finds here.

| Original Score: 8.6/10 | Aug 17, 2018

Moselle believes in the power of girls. The friendships through which Camille learns how to be loved become the anguish that breaks her heart and the forgiveness that humbly heals her.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 17, 2018

A touching ode to the rewards and challenges of female friendship...

| Aug 17, 2018

It works in large part because of Vinberg's poignant and persuasive performance. When she speaks of escaping "the loneliness you have even in a crowded room," it makes your heart ache.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2018