Jandy Hardesty’s review published on Letterboxd:
I know pretty much nothing about skateboarding, other than I would probably kill myself if I tried it, considering I suck at it even in Tony Hawk games. Okay, I've played Tony Hawk games, so I know some of the terminology and the name Tony Hawk. Hawk figures fairly prominently in this film, basically a memoir of the skating team put together by Stacy Peralta (who also directs this film) in the 1980s, which included a young Hawk along with lots of other skaters that I'm sure I would've known if I knew anything about it. Anyway, the film is quite enjoyable, capturing the exhilaration these kids got (and still get, frankly) out of skating, and the way the Bones Brigade became the social circle that eluded them in regular school life. The fact that all the guys have different styles and approaches as well as different approaches to their outsider status keeps it interesting, and Peralta has gathered a great lot of archival footage from competitions and meets at the time as well as the from the skate videos his company put together starring the Bones Brigade. The one thing I might've liked more of would be footage of skaters prior to the Bones Brigade's formation - they talked a lot about the moves that Bones Brigade members created which are standard now, like the ollie and the 520 McTwist, and had interview clips with older skaters talking about how things changed when the Bones Brigade came along, but for someone like me who doesn't know hardly anything about the sport, a bit more visual context of what it was like before the Bones Brigade would've helped me appreciate their innovations and contributions more.
Bones Brigade > Our Dancing Daughters
Bones Brigade < Hero
Bones Brigade < The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Bones Brigade > Dreamgirls
Bones Brigade < Passion of the Christ
Bones Brigade < Sweeney Todd
Bones Brigade > Operation Petticoat
Bones Brigade > The Cat Concerto
Bones Brigade > The Atomic Brain
Bones Brigade < Roberta
Bones Brigade < Operation Rabbit
Bones Brigade < Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Final ranking #1403/3309