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  ★★★★ review by davidehrlich on Letterboxd

  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.

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  ★★★½ review by Peter Labuza on Letterboxd

  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 his collection of tunes, jokes, and movie homages, but he always wants you in on it all with him. He wants to be obvious: a dissolve swims from a washer to a record, the characters move their feet right on tempo to the beat, and that first smile means love. Wright genuinely has no interest in subverting the Hollywood cinema; he just wants to remember all the details of why he fell in love with movies in the first place.

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  ★★★★ review by brat pitt on Letterboxd

  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 about how my beloved cat has been missing for a full day and ... that's honestly extremely impressive. thank you mr. baby driver

  
  
  EDIT: this story has a happy ending & my cat has been found :) now i have to rewatch when this burden isn't in the back of my mind haha

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  ★★★★★ review by Logan Kenny on Letterboxd

  it's a video game musical

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  ★★★★½ review by adrianbalboa on Letterboxd

  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

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