Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi makes it easy to stay put. The film passes at a glide.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2022

I really appreciated this film. It's very slow moving and you have to stick with it.

| Mar 12, 2022

The pieces Hamaguchi assembles don’t seem to add up, and yet when it’s over you may feel that the whole is much, much larger than the sum of the parts, in ways beyond the power to articulate.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 2, 2022

Hamaguchi’s film shows that it will remain beautiful, and viewers will forget that they are not in the red Saab, and instead, they’re together, watching a movie.

| Feb 23, 2022

It’s a well made, interesting film, but surely no masterpiece.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 17, 2022

It’s mysterious, impenetrable, creeping forward on many fronts like a lava flow of ideas and nuance. It’s also throat-catchingly beautiful, as sad as a funeral, and wise in a way few films ever aspire to be.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 12, 2022

The length of the film is daunting, but it's also a thoroughly engrossing piece of art that's sexy and thoughtful.

| Feb 8, 2022

Here's the best movie you never heard of, a flat-out masterpiece from Japan that's a frontrunner to win the foreign-film Oscar and maybe pull a 'Parasite" and compete for Best Picture. Why not? It's enthralling from first scene to last.

| Jan 21, 2022

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's film takes all kinds of unexpected swerves from the sparse text it's adapting. But it triumphs because it understands the weight of those little details.

| Jan 20, 2022

"Drive My Car" viewers need to be patient, but that patience is rewarded.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 20, 2022

Over the course of just under three hours, Hamaguchi reworks and expands a Haruki Murakami short story (it first ran in The New Yorker) into an intimate epic.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 20, 2022

Drive My Car shows people devastated by loss, allowing time to ripen those wounds and distort their understanding of love and purpose.

| Jan 6, 2022

"Drive My Car" is quiet and stirring, anchored by exquisite performances byNishijima andMiura, and enriched with a sense of both longing and forward propulsion by directorHamaguchi.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 6, 2022

Its three-hour running time flashes by.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 22, 2021

Drive My Car chugs along with brilliant linearity-leaping across weeks and years to chronicle an artist's struggle to turn grief into inspiration.

| Dec 21, 2021

Hamaguchi is adept in character study, his films unfolding as if they were novels, totally consuming.

| Dec 16, 2021

For a century and more, film directors have explored crosscurrents between art and life, and how one informs the other. Hamaguchi makes that exploration a fully humanized one.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 10, 2021

Drive My Car is one of 2021's best films.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 10, 2021

It's beautiful in every conceivable way.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 9, 2021

There is a deep richness to the film, especially in Yûsuke's emotional journey, and Hamaguchi does an excellent job of letting his characters' secrets unfold naturally.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2021