Michael Mann's portrait of the egotistical race car pioneer takes a fascinating approach to a complex life story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Cruz makes an indelible impact, investing Laura with a sorrowful anger that feels both earned and true.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2024

The race scenes are charged but the highlight is Cruz’s grieving matriarch: it’s a titanic performance.

| Apr 4, 2024

The film exemplifies seriousness of purpose – both its maker’s and its subject’s – without ever turning pretentious, and that’s something.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2024

It’s a messy story, but with Mann’s structural rigor imposed upon it. That is a powerful combination, and one that makes “Ferrari” a bizarrely compelling entry in the Mann canon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 19, 2024

Like the myriad elements of a car engine, it can work in symphony, and at other times, it stalls and sputters out.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 15, 2024

The film has an integrity which can’t be ignored. It’s a grown-up movie about big ambitions and the disasters which strike when they’re placed above all else. After a fallow eight years, it’s great to see Mann return to the screen.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 11, 2024

In “Ferrari,” Mann’s meticulous attention to the details conveys how deeply he cares about the subject.

| Jan 6, 2024

When it gets going, it definitely does get going, and Penélope Cruz just steals this movie.

| Jan 6, 2024

This is Penelope Cruz’s film. It’s one of the greatest performances in her stellar career. She goes head-to-head with the title character and the result is pedal to the metal powerful and impressive.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 5, 2024

The great Michael Mann directs Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari, the ex-racer-turned-entrepreneur. The domestic scenes with his wife (Penelope Cruz) and mistress (Shailene Woodley) slow the pacing but the vroom of tires on the road is thrilling to the max.

| Dec 29, 2023

Mr. Mann’s slow-burning, intensely focused drama is occasionally ponderous... but its third act is absolutely thrilling. Sidestepping Hollywood gloss, his movie combines the gravitas of an indie with the high stakes of a studio picture.

| Dec 29, 2023

Ferrari doesn’t click on all cylinders, featuring a miscast Adam Driver as the automotive mogul, in a Michael Mann-directed movie with some arresting moments that add up to less than the sum of its parts.

| Dec 29, 2023

A lovingly told, endearingly flawed passion project from the Ferrari of filmmakers.

| Dec 27, 2023

Ferrari has crossed the finish line in style. It’s exciting, intelligent, witty and elegant, with a central performance that’s a knockout.

| Dec 27, 2023

The film does not valorize Ferrari, but it doesn’t complicate him either. And while its racing sequences are exhilarating, it should have spent more time looking under the hood.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 26, 2023

I wouldn’t mind seeing Ferrari again sometime just for Cruz, and for a few of Mann’s most gratifying examples of classical Hollywood technique, done his way. The movie reinvents no wheels. But it sure knows how to film ‘em.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 26, 2023

Driver is fantastic. Cruz is even better. But a strange, slightly surreal movie in all.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2023

You’re about as deep inside this character’s head as imaginable, though given the glimpses you catch of what’s inside and all the damage that Enzo does, it is the filmmaker more than the character who holds you rapt.

| Dec 25, 2023

As the film juggles its various storylines, viewers may learn more about how an engine works than what drives Ferrari — other than his basic needs for love and money. Mann’s film is as flat as a punctured tire.

| Dec 24, 2023