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Baby Driver

2017 Directed by Edgar Wright

All you need is one killer track.

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

Ansel Elgort Lily James Kevin Spacey Jon Hamm Jamie Foxx Eiza González Jon Bernthal Flea Lanny Joon Sky Ferreira R. Marcos Taylor Hudson Meek CJ Jones Paul Williams Lance Palmer Big Boi Mike "Killer Mike" Render Jon Spencer Micah Howard Morgan Brown Sidney Sewell Thurman Sewell Walter Hill Brogan Hall Jeff Chase Wilbur Fitzgerald Brigitte Kali Canales Andy McDermott Patrick R. Walker Show All…

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Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 32

straight up the most fun i've had in a movie theater since MAGIC MIKE XXL. like an 113-minute version of those year-end video things i make, but, ya know… actually art, and not just legwork. can't *quite* shake the feeling that this was $20 million short of being a masterpiece (just as i'm having a little trouble making sense of how this movie doesn't end with a car chase), but this is still exactly the kind of shot in the arm that mid-budget studio filmmaking needs.
Review by Evan ★★★★★ 19

Baby Driver is the best mixtape ever assembled.

I don't think a movie has got my adrenaline pumping as much as this movie just did. To say this film was exhilarating would be the understatement of the century.

Car chases has now reach magnum opus. There's no reason to have another car chase in a movie because it will never come close to the car chases in Baby Driver. There's also some epic shootout sequences. A LOT of blood is shed.

Ansel Elgort plays one of the best skewed heroes ever put on screen. I haven't rooted this hard for a criminal ever.

Jamie Foxx absolutely KILLS it! He plays the slimiest fucker ever and I hated him with every ounce of my being.

Lily James stole my heart.

On my drive home from the theater I had one of the jam sessions of my life. Threw on the tunes and just drove baby!

B A B Y motherfuckers!!
Review by Peter Labuza ★★★½ 30

Edgar Wright would have never fit the 70s New Wave: he belongs at Warners in the 30s. Baby Driver colors inside the lines, but this is a stark contrast from other recent Hollywood films praised being "different enough." He wants the image on screen to matter more than the cultural conversation that occurs afterwards. He's rather cast a David Byrne than a emotive performance (perhaps to a slight detriment when the gears change). He wants to create tone and rhythm and pace - a movie with individual parts instead of a smoothed out surface. Car chases move more like Bollywood dance numbers than action scenes - with each car composed like an individual sari. He's a genuine dork, showing off…
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★★ 14

so you’re telling me they couldn’t find any possible way to include kiwi by harry styles on this movie’s soundtrack
Review by Logan Kenny ★★★★★ 15

it's a video game musical
Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 19

THE POSITIVES
+ the synchronized soundtrack to the actions (obviously! this is a very lukewarm take but i still gotta mention it because it's THAT GOOD of a technique)
+ love that deaf representation!!
+ sky ferreira
+ made me forget i hate ansel elgort

THE NEGATIVES
- if only the characters' decisions were synchronized with their motivations 👀
- uncomfy gender/racial politics (just ONCE i'd like to see a heist movie where women are more than just love interests. can't wait for Oceans Eight!)
- not enough sky ferreira
- made me forget i hate ansel elgort

BONUS
+++ THE 3 SECOND CLIP OF BRAD PITT IN FIGHT CLUB

VERDICT
for 2 full hours this movie made me forget…

Recent reviews

Review by Adam ★★★★

Watching this for the second time, I finally realize how badass it is.
Review by oliviabaker ★★★★

Love his jackets all of them if u know what I'm talking about u know
Review by Luke Nelson ★★★★½

9.0/10

A pure fun thrill ride with the greatest car chase in film history. Edgar Wright deserves most of the credit for this unique kind of storytelling and filmmaking. The soundtrack is just amazing in every way.

Ansel Elgort gives a breakout performance in the same vein Tom Cruise did with Risky Business.

Lily James is just everything.
Review by nena ★★★½

one thing i can't understand is why baby kept running from the cops at certain point. he could've just sat down on the grass with his ipod and everyone would think he was an emo teenager.
Review by midwestwitch ★★

There are many things that irritated me about this movie, but the music wasn’t one of them. I guess the great thing about not having a plot is that you can just film people doing things without having to worry about a story.

Oh and thanks for showing me how a car chase can be boring.
Review by sebb ★★★★½

I loved this way more than I expected!! The action sequences were so good and I loved the characters and the music. Also Lily James and Ansel Elgort are so hot whew I love being bi
Review by Vonathan ★★½

The story isn't anything special and the characters are dull, except for Jon Hamm's character, but even he is ruined by that stupid haircut.
Review by KS ★★★★½

Ive never sympathized with a criminal as much as I have baby.. Perhaps this will get a 5 star rating when I rewatch it again.
Review by alex alex ★★★★

ending kinda sucks lol 😂