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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 Jamie Foxx Jon Hamm Eiza González CJ Jones Jon Bernthal Flea Lanny Joon Paul Williams R. Marcos Taylor Sky Ferreira Hudson Meek Brogan Hall Big Boi Mike "Killer Mike" Render Jon Spencer Jeff Chase Wilbur Fitzgerald Brigitte Kali Canales Andy McDermott Ben VanderMey Erica Frene Shellita Boxie Patrick R. Walker Allison King Lance Palmer Keith Hudson Show All…

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Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 25

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 ★★★★★ 16

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 27

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 Logan Kenny ★★★★★ 12

it's a video game musical
Review by Arielrocks5 ★★★★★ 38

I haven't had fond memories of my birthday since I was ten, at the very least. Sure, some in between the period of then and now were fun (with only the last two years being something I don't want to think about but still do ((if you're close to me, you'll know why)) ), but I can't remember the last time I remembered having a birthday I was not only looking forward to, but enjoyed on the same level as I did when I was a child......

That all changed when Edgar Wright, for bringing that joy back at full force.

"Baby Driver" is one part "Grand Theft Auto" style action, one part "Blues Brothers" style Juice Box musical, "Thief"…
Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 17

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 Ben ★★★★★

It's so nice, I saw it twice.
Review by Mickey J. Brijandez ★★★★★

Sin despegarse por completo de su funny side, Edgar Wright viene a gritarnos que también puede hacer cine serio. Wizard del montaje; musica + persecuciones + balazos + Eiza González. Exigir mas es ser un spoiled desconsiderado.
Review by Arini ★★★½

The romance sublplot was actually kind of cute
Review by Moritz Schwarzl ★★★½

Cool movie! Not as round as some other edgar wright movies, but generally entertaining.
Review by Mathieu Li-Goyette ★★★½

Si seulement le film était à la hauteur de sa séquence d'ouverture...

C'est beau, c'est sympathique, rythmé et parfois très drôle, mais c'est aussi le Edgar Wright le moins surprenant... Et comme la force de Wright, me semble-t-il, a toujours été dans ses scénarios, le fait d'en avoir un si mince, si bateau, c'est pas terrible, surtout quand il y a deux (ou trois ?) fois moins de poursuites dans le film que dans mes attentes de spectateur peu exigeant.
Review by Quin Currie ★★★

Surprisingly underwhelming. The first act was absolutely fantastic, senes where expertly choreographed, acting and writing were superb, and it felt original. This completely tapered off in the 2nd and 3rd act. It went from a original Edgar Wright action comedy, to a boring, Hollywood, action film. The music gimmick was nonexistent for the rest of the movie, and everything felt flat. I had such high hopes for this movie, and came in feeling like it was going to be like Wrights other amazing films, and was disappointed.

Not a horrible film, but Edgar Wright's worst, by a long shot.
Review by betsy 1

imagine thinking i wouldn't die for debora and darling
Review by Tiago Henriques ★★★

Did not live up to the hype. Heartbroken.
Review by StevenCarrier ★★½

When the best part of your film is the opening credits you know you got a real problem. Enormously overrated