There’s a seductive fantasy at the center of “Destroy All Girls”: that you can skate fast enough to leave your old life behind. Alex runs from a grocery-store job, a combative mother, and the burden of caring for her paralyzed brother, trading it all for a van, a camera, and a crew of aspiring skateboarders chasing sponsorships across the country. The problem is that the film mistakes movement for momentum. Everyone is always going somewhere, but “Destroy All Girls” never figures out where—or why.
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