Highly, highly recommend it. In a year chock full of fantastic documentaries, this is one to put at the top of your list (and gird your loins for it too, just saying, it carries a real punch). Other top picks are, perhaps unsurprisingly: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (devastatingly sweet and deceptively profound) and Three Identical Strangers (didn’t love the storytelling structure but the story is undeniably great).
Minding the Gap totally blew me away. So incredibly intimate and incisive, yet the way it was put together made me completely forget I was even watching a documentary. An interesting sort of free-associating rhythm to it too. Without sounding too petty, it’s kind of like the real and more resonant version of Mid-90s. I don’t want to give too many details away, since the main characters’ lives really unfold and unravel in shocking ways throughout the course of the film. Please go watch!