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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 ★★★★★ 20

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 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…
Review by Logan Kenny ★★★★★ 15

it's a video game musical
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★★½ 88

your ansel elgort name corresponding to your birthday:

january: hansel
february: angel
march: pencil
april: bagel
may: stencil
june: pretzel
july: apple
august: cankles
september: daniel
october: hänschen
november: hazel
december: advil

1: elbow
2: yogurt
3: eggo
4: cello
5: acorn
6: airport
7: net worth
8: divorce court
9: boggart
10: gopher
11: elkhart
12: chortle
13: ernst
14: go kart
15: elmo
16: feldco
17: go-gurt
18: beaufort
19: elderberry
20: pelvis
21: gerbil
22: extrovert
23: cohort
24: el dorado
25: fortnite
26: bridgeport
27: elastic
28: smeltery
29: exoskeleton
30: pelican
31: ebert

Recent reviews

Review by Jayne Juffe ★★★½

Noel Fielding should have reprised his role
Review by gracie 💘 ★★★★

soundtrack.... absolutely slaps
Review by Lu

listen,,, the soundtrack is great and it's very well directed but the actual script is terrible and spacey's character's last line still haunts me
Review by BD_Network ★★★★½

Wow. Great film overall. Definitely one of my favorites. Love the twist and turns.
Review by shiv ★★★★★

slightly overhyped but honestly still a really good time. acting was decent but that direction and music was 1000/10. as expected from edgar wright.
Review by Noah McCarty-Slaughter ★★★★½

After I saw this movie I walked around with earbuds in my ears for days.
Review by robertkoss ★★★★

Hat Spaß gemacht
Review by Lizbeth Ortiz ★★★★

Wright DID that
Loved the film.
I watched it some months ago and I truly enjoyed it.
Review by Johnathan Fisher ★★★★

Is it possible to not love Edgar Wright?