![]() ![]() The difference is in its ambitions it doesn't actually have a lot to say about the sometimes toxic teen dynamics it revels in. ![]() Mid90s is a tightly wound person's attempt to make a loose hangout flick, but that's not what makes it feel small in comparison to the other two movies - they're all intimately scaled. Throw in a score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, a carefully curated, era-appropriate soundtrack, and warm 16 mm cinematography, and you have a movie that's basically been engineered to be an indie darling. But Mid90s made more in its opening weekend in four theaters than Skate Kitchen and Minding the Gap did in their total runs combined - not so surprising, given that it was directed by a movie star and is being released by A24, getting the benefit of the company's halo of hipness and track record of putting out excellent, excruciatingly intimate coming-of-age films like Ladybird and Eighth Grade. And like Skate Kitchen, it's a movie that includes a lot of first-time actors who were sought out for their real-life talent on a board. Mid90s, a Los Angeles–set dramedy about a 13-year-old who falls in with a collection of older teens who hang out at his local skate shop, is, like Minding the Gap, about boys finding different forms of escape through skating. ![]() All of them use skating as a backdrop for themes of belonging, gender expectations, class, racial identity, and friendship, and prove it to be startlingly rich territory for stories about coming of age. Jonah Hill's directorial debut Mid90s, currently rolling through theaters, is the biggest - and least incisive - installment of an unintentional trilogy that also includes Crystal Moselle's Sundance fave Skate Kitchen and Bing Liu's personal documentary Minding the Gap. It's skateboarding that has low-key turned out to be the really interesting teen movie trend of 2018. Forget about the rebirth of the high school rom-com, recently coaxed back to life by Netflix, a collective yearning for comfort, and the dreamy eyes of actor Noah Centineo. ![]()
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