Until the Wheels Fall Off ultimately suggests that Hawk might only find fulfillment and inner peace when hes skateboarding, but if thats the case he isnt saying either way.

Full Review | Apr 24, 2022

Hawk is a legend, and while this documentary may be more invested in that rather than what makes him a human, its still a dazzling story worth telling.

Full Review | Apr 24, 2022

It's a documentary for people who are already immersed in this world... It's a very interesting psychological dissection.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2022

You want to smack him and say "Grow up."

Full Review | Apr 19, 2022

It's not the first Tony Hawk documentary... But this is perhaps the most insightful.

Full Review | Apr 18, 2022

Routine, but never less than engaging, Joness film essentially follows Hawks personal and professional life from birth to the present. Made up of archival footage and interviews with Hawk and various other skaters...

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 16, 2022

"Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off" is the best kind of sports documentary, an account of an individual athlete's lifelong efforts rendered with respect and affection without ever becoming overly obsequious.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 14, 2022

Hawk has appeared in documentaries before, but none were as thorough, universal, or as deeply emotional as this, charting his exciting successes as well as his heartbreaking lows.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2022

An interesting documentary that, by celebrating an icon, makes clear his influence on generations to come... Full Review in Spanish

Full Review | Apr 10, 2022

Director Sam Jones and Executive Producers The Duplass Brothers have created a dry but illuminating dive into the skateboard innovator’s life and the legendary Bones Brigade era of skateboarding.

Full Review | Apr 8, 2022

This lively and at times moving film explains, eloquently, why Hawk has endured in popular culture — and why he can’t stop risking his bones to master the maneuvers few can do.

Full Review | Apr 8, 2022

Jones film has a reverence for Hawk but does not let that turn his piece into hagiography.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 7, 2022

Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off is a reckoning of passion told by those who best understand the price of that love story: Hawk, his loved ones and his peers on the board.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.4/10 | Apr 6, 2022

The film hits enough emotional beats that it rises above a great many sports-themed documentaries, making it one of the better ones I've seen in recent years.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 6, 2022

The skateboarding legend is revealed in all his complexity, doubts and foibles in this illuminating documentary that pierces the mythology.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2022

Based on wide-ranging interviews with his family ... fellow pros, and interspersed with entertainingly grainy interviews and videos, Jones builds a richly-layered portrait of Hawk as a young up-and-comer whose early promise won him as many fans as rivals.

Full Review | Apr 4, 2022

... the unabashed warmth, affection, and frankness with which Hawk as a person is explored exceeds any kind of expectation one might have.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 1, 2022

Jones set out to tell an intimate and raw story of Hawk’s journey, his relationship to skateboarding, and the all-too-real consequences of deeply loving something that could spell your end but soldiering on with reckless abandon.

Full Review | Mar 16, 2022

Until the Wheels Fall Off couldve maybe explored Hawks personal life with a bit more focus, but Jones still creates a captivating, edge-of-your-seat documentary that manages to make the idea of landing a trick a genuinely moving scenario.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 16, 2022

Neither man nor documentary seemingly has anything to prove at this point, though its when Joness chronicle collides with a present-day Hawk at a crossroads that he discovers the most poignant material.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2022