Even though Gran Turismo struggles with sticking to its strengths and maintaining efficient pacing, it still does an adequate job of championing a modern globe-trotting underdog tale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2024

It’s an advertisement for a video game that actively seeks to separate failure (gaming) from success (not gaming). Jann’s steadfast refusal to not be “just a gamer” becomes such a rallying cry that it feels unintentionally insulting.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 3, 2024

I enjoyed the inspirational guidance of Jack Salter (David Harbour), as he guided the young, inexperienced driver to trust his instincts and believe in himself.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2024

I enjoyed the rapport between Madekwe + Harbour as underdogs in elite racing. The racing scenes are well-staged and use CGI in an effective way to showcase the video game elements.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 2, 2024

Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story, the melodramatic biopic adaptation of the video game released in a dozen countries before its arrival in the United States, disappointed international critics. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: C- | Jan 18, 2024

The inspiring story of a video gamer who makes his dream of being a race car driver come true.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 24, 2023

This sports biopic disguised as a video game adaptation incorporates many of the tropes we are familiar with, but still manages to succeed at pulling the right heart strings.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2023

Gran Turismo is perhaps a more basic film for Blomkamp, but a welcome reminder that his breakthrough first feature District 9 wasn’t a fluke.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2023

Although the screenplay is predictable and structured in a conventional form, Neil BlonKap's performance saves the movie. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 20, 2023

Gran Turismo made me remember just how fun it is to play the game and made me turn it on when I got home, dreaming of being a race car driver again.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 5, 2023

The story is let down by an incredibly slow start, although it just narrowly squeaks by as it crosses the finish line.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 28, 2023

...a rousing crowd pleaser - dented and battered perhaps - but mostly intact.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2023

While not as good as two other recent car-racing movies, Ron Howard’s ‘Rush’ and James Mangold’s ‘Ford V. Ferrari,’ ‘Gran Turismo’ is still a fairly effective underdog story with some cool driving scenes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2023

The underlying message is the improbable suggestion that a video game can lead to a glamorous, exciting, well-paid profession.

| Sep 17, 2023

A return to form for Neill Blomkamp.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 14, 2023

Neill embraces the fact that his movie is based on a game but also doesn’t limit himself to it. Gran Turismo is not ashamed of being a video game movie, and its very story is a celebration of the people who play the games.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2023

It's "Top Gun" meets "The Hill." Fun and inspiring!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2023

[Race car driver Jann] Mardenborough's triumph of talent, will and perseverance is precisely the feel-good, adrenaline-pumping film audiences need to finish off the summer blockbuster season on the highest podium.

| Sep 12, 2023

It is a human interest story at its heart and that's part of the problem because I really liked this guy's story, but we really don't get enough. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: C | Sep 12, 2023

The chief joy derived in “Gran Turismo,” — aside from the delight Blomkamp shows in editing together tight racing sequences — is watching Harbour tear through all the gruff-but-lovable coaching cliches and find the battered, vulnerable heart within.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 10, 2023