
When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too - as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the field.... (Full plot summary below)
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When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too - as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the field.
Leave your thoughts about Bones Brigade: An Autobiography.
| ScreenAnarchyChase WhaleYou don't need to be knee-deep or even care about skateboarding to fall in love with this film. Bones Brigade: The Autobiography is a masterpiece. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweDeep, rich and resonant, Bones Brigade will provide fans with an enticing portal to revisit skateboarding's glory days and introduce the era to a whole new generation of enthusiasts. |
| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayBones Brigade is surprisingly emotional and inspirational too, as these now-grown men look back on the days when they were competitive, easily bruised kids, drawn to Peralta's calming, avuncular presence. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoEven if you've never ridden a skateboard or had any interest in people who do, you'll get a kick out of Stacy Peralta's documentary Bones Brigade: An Autography. |
| Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyWhile his breakthrough documentary, "Dogtown and Z-Boys," cracked open the window on a largely unknown world in vibrant and visceral ways, Bones feels like an epilogue. |
| Time OutDavid FearYou just wish the moviemaking were as consistently graceful and momentum-fixated as the film's rail-grinding subjects. |
| Times-PicayuneMike ScottAside from a lack of journalistic integrity, it's a well-assembled film, one that capitalizes on the charisma of its interview subjects. |
| Village VoiceNick SchagerThe film risks self-importance, but when Peralta admits through tears just how much he loves his skater charges, it imparts what every parent knows: that even better than achieving one's own success is shepherding the success of others. |
| VarietyRobert KoehlerSkate culture remains in solid hands with filmmaker Stacy Peralta, who fashions his most personal doc on the sport-cum-lifestyle. |
| NOW TorontoRadheyan SimonpillaiThe film may be shameless self-promotion and navel-gazing (it's sponsored by Vans), but the interviews are so candid and introspective that it's worthwhile. |