{"id":5109,"date":"2026-08-09T17:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:34:54","slug":"destroy-all-girls-review-a-young-jersey-woman-joins-a-group-of-itinerant-skater-dudes-in-a-hip-and-evocative-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5109","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Destroy All Girls\u2019 Review: A Young Jersey Woman Joins a Group of Itinerant Skater Dudes in a Hip and Evocative Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAlex (Ani Mesa-Perez, also the film\u2019s co-writer), a young woman from New Jersey, tries to escape a claustrophobic home life by running away with a rowdy band of hard-partying in-line skaters in Erin Vassilopoulos\u2019 freeform but engaging drama, <em>Destroy All Girls<\/em>. The film\u2019s provocative title comes from a message a niche Californian skatewear company once wove into their clothing line\u2019s care labels as a joke, a sample of which is seen here. But it hints at how a low-key misogyny can sometimes be palpable under the surface in the skater dudes\u2019 bro-centric culture, even if at first the guys seem pretty chill.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5107\">How the Late-Night Emmy Became the Anti-Trump Award<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tEven so, the film\u2019s gaze is more anthropological than polemical, especially given the faux-doc vibe created by its abundant handheld camerawork, seemingly filmed sometimes by the actors themselves. Premiering in Locarno\u2019s Cinema of the Present strand should give this a good launch on the rolling concrete ups and downs of the festival skatepark circuit.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tDestroy All Girls \t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<div>\n<span>The Bottom Line<\/span><br \/>\n<span><\/p>\n<p>\tLords of the Jersey Shore.<br \/>\n\t<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<strong>Venue: <\/strong>Locarno Film Festival <br \/><strong>Cast: <\/strong>Ani Mesa-Perez, Gil Perez-Abraham, Dominic Bruce, Alfredo Narcisco, Florencia Lozano, John Bolino, Malcolm Heard, Anthony Marchione, Parker Richardson, Silvia Kambouridis<br \/><strong>Director: <\/strong>Erin Vassilopoulos<br \/><strong>Screenwriters:<\/strong> Ani Mesa-Perez, Gil Perez-Abraham, Flo Baumann, Erin Vassilopoulos<br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1 hour 27 minutes\t\t\t<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tFirst met in happier times rolling around the streets of a Jersey town just across the river from Manhattan, working-class Alex is especially close to her big brother Gabriel (Gil Perez-Abraham, who also collaborated with Mesa-Perez on the script, as did Flo Baumann and Vassilopoulos). Gabriel was a talented skater with access to the latest in skate designs, but an abrupt flashforward finds him paralyzed after a car accident, the particulars of which are explained later. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlex, pointedly called Alexa by her mother (Florencia Lozano), who hates Alex\u2019s tomboyish style, works in a bodega and looks after her brother a lot. Constantly bickering with her mother and burdened by her brother\u2019s care at home, Alex finds joy mostly when she\u2019s out skating herself, or filming others at the local skatepark with her minicam.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOne day down at the park she meets Cameron (Dominic Bruce), a lanky white guy with an odd accent (he\u2019s Scottish but with all the glottal stops and gutterals sanded down) who is a real showboat on the jumps and ramps. Cameron is the de facto leader of a little non-violent gang-ette that call themselves Prospers. Together, they travel from skate park to skate park, getting high often on weed and beer, and hoping that they\u2019ll get taken up by a sponsor so they can compete out in California professionally. It\u2019s not exactly clear how they support themselves, let alone afford the gas to run the refurbished short bus they live in, but maybe they sell the footage shot by Cole (Malcolm Heard) or deal a bit of drugs on the side. Who knows, maybe they have trust funds. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5105\">The 20 Most Unforgettable \u2018Real Housewives\u2019 Moments, Ranked<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlex certainly doesn\u2019t ask too many questions and is just happy to keep hanging out with them in New York and points beyond, living in the bus. She starts shooting the B-roll for Cole\u2019s ongoing doc, and learns a few tricks from Cameron with whom she soon starts a romantic liaison, although he\u2019s upfront about having a child with another woman.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhile the script may have four names attached to it, the dialogue often feels spontaneous and semi-improvised and Vassilopoulos does a good job at relaxing the young cast so that they sound like regular zoomers as they banter and bicker. The road movie atmosphere may conjure features set in a similar milieu, like Andrea Arnold\u2019s <em>American Honey<\/em> perhaps, or early Harmony Korine or Larry Clark movies, but with less tension or violence. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tIndeed, not much really happens apart from skating and partying, the latter reaching its high pitch when Alex and Cameron take mushrooms and check into a motel room for a night of hallucinations and sex. But the voice messages from her family that Alex occasionally listens to start to pull her back to her old life. Will she go home or stay with sweet but self-absorbed Cameron? Alex\u2019s androgynous dress sense suggests that she might not be that into him, and possibly may be more taken with lithe skater punk Silvia (Silvia Kambouridis, luminous in just a few scenes).<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe resolution when it comes is satisfying if slight. The way Vassilopoulos and her team have chosen not to define things like Alex\u2019s gender identity feels very of the open-ended, label-resistant ways of the younger generations. Identity here is very much in motion, much like the young athletes themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5103\">\u2018PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie\u2019 Review: Busy New Entry in Pup Franchise Is Exactly What You\u2019d Expect<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Vassilopoulos&#039; &#039;Destroy All Girls&#039; is an anthropological study of a subculture that&#039;s been going for years but remains forever young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3304],"class_list":["post-5109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-locarno-film-festival-2026"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Destroy All Girls\u2019 Review: A Young Jersey Woman Joins a Group of Itinerant Skater Dudes in a Hip and Evocative Drama - 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