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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Vanity FairRichard LawsonVanity FairRichard LawsonThe wonderful thing about Skate Kitchen is how inviting it is, welcoming you into its community and showing you around with cheery spunk. Skate Kitchen is a warm movie.
- 83The Film StageJordan RaupThe Film StageJordan RaupIt’s such a step-up in vibrancy, scope, and emotion that it feels like the introduction of an entirely different, more accomplished filmmaker.
- 83IndieWireEric KohnIndieWireEric KohnWithout breaking a lot of new ground, the result is one of the more positive depictions of millennial community-building in recent cinema. None of the group’s fancy flips or grinds top the degree to which “Skate Kitchen” turns its subjects into a fascinating microcosm of American youth.
- 83The PlaylistKimber MyersThe PlaylistKimber MyersAs in “The Wolfpack,” Moselle doesn’t just capture the rebellions of her characters, she expresses their triumphs and joys with intimacy and detail.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeLess a coming-of-age film than a series of crucial episodes in that process, Skate Kitchen mixes dreaminess and disillusionment as it observes the choices Camille makes and the ensuing fallout.
- 80TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeSkate Kitchen is a funny and stirring saga of female empowerment that will no doubt delight young women who skate while inspiring many more to pick up a board. It also heralds Moselle as a director who can easily switch stance on both sides of the fiction/non-fiction divide.
- 80VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew BarkerSkate Kitchen has plenty to say about the lengths to which young women must go to clear out a little breathing room in testosterone-heavy spaces, but it is first and foremost an irresistible hangout movie.
- 75The A.V. ClubKatie RifeThe A.V. ClubKatie RifeIn fact, all the weed smoking and street-smart sidewalk banter aside, Skate Kitchen’s perspective is, in many ways, downright innocent; as such, it may be a better fit for adolescent viewers than adult ones.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattEntertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattShot by cinematographer Shabier Kirchner in hazy, endless-summer half-light, Kitchen finds a kind of urban poetry in the swooping parabolas of the skate park and the rumbling scrape of wheels on pavement.
- 63Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe film is empathetic toward and clear-eyed about its young characters, even if the drama it constructs around them tends toward the superficial.