... Drive is a riveting watch.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 8, 2017

I'll never forget the first time I saw Drive. I've since never been able to replicate the experience.

| Original Score: A+ | Apr 17, 2015

What it had going for it was an uncanny and moving relationship between Gosling and Mulligan.

| Jun 24, 2013

Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive is an ambient mood piece that his you like a shot of nitroglycerine enhanced adrenaline yet goes down as smoothly as an expensive slug of single-malt.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 27, 2012

Ultra-violent, ultra-tedious, bargain-basement rip-off of the classic 1978 Walter Hill film The Driver.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 25, 2011

While you could lean back and nod along to Refn's posturing, the film plays more like an exercise in turn-of-the-Eighties nostalgia, a movie-length strong-silent swagger inspired by the art on a VHS box.

| Oct 9, 2011

A more or less conventional Los Angeles-set hot-rod/getaway-driver movie with neo-noir decoration -- albeit satisfying enough on its own terms.

| Sep 27, 2011

A film that moves relentlessly forward, carrying you along so completely that it's only afterwards, if at all, that you begin to wonder about origins and plausibilities.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2011

Drive is a masterpiece of surface over depth. Catnip for anyone who thinks cinema is for the eye rather than the brain or heart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2011

Even when the screen goes berserk - a face splintering under a stamping heel, a master-crook attacking a defenceless colleague's features with a knife and fork - director Refn doesn't blink or expect us to.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2011

By no means perfect, although it's hard to process the flaws while your insides are singing and you can't catch your breath.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2011

Drive is a movie with power but is still directionless; the acceleration is great, but the steering needs looking at.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2011

Sure, it's shallow, but it's also slickly compelling, beautifully crafted and so damn shiny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2011

In grabbing our attention, [Refn] diverts it from what matters. The horror lingers and seeps; the feelings are sponged away.

| Sep 20, 2011

Oh alright, it ain't Shane. But it is about as much shamelessly disreputable, stylish, ultra-violent fun you're going to have at the movies this year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2011

A unique blend of classical tropes and modern filmmaking.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 18, 2011

It's the kind of movie magic that we don't see every Friday night at the theaters anymore.

| Sep 17, 2011

For me, Drive is all attitude, punctuated by unpleasant bursts of violence. If that's what passes for cutting-edge filmmaking, or storytelling, we're in trouble.

Full Review | Sep 16, 2011

The extreme and escalating violence will prove off-putting to some-frankly, I'm surprised not to have been among them-but for the rest, Drive is a needle-punch of adrenaline to the aorta.

| Sep 16, 2011

In reworking genres without quoting shamelessly, Refn proves himself his own man and a guy quite capable of taking us places we didn't even know we wanted to go.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 16, 2011