Howard creates a persuasive sense of the time and place, and the race sequences are impressively mounted. This is thrillingly tense stuff, even if you know how the story panned out.

| Sep 14, 2022

While it has its moments of sentimentality, the film as a whole is rather shallow and fails to capture the soul of either man.

| Original Score: C | Sep 6, 2017

This thrilling drama is no more for petrol-heads only than Titanic is solely of interest to historic ship enthusiasts.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2017

Rush is pure 'print the myth' stuff -- but since both its heroes really are myths, it gets away with it, with more grace and vigor than you might expect.

| Feb 6, 2014

An entertaining movie with two solid performances that only occasionally stalls because of its sometimes heavy-handed treatment of Hunt and Lauda's differences.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 31, 2013

Considering the subject matter, Rush delivers the expected visceral jolts; what's surprising is how endearing it is, even when its two protagonists are behaving like little more than boys with very fast toys.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 31, 2013

The script is another Peter Morgan special. Like, say, The Queen and Frost/Nixon, it's a speculative duet built around a moment of newsworthiness.

| Sep 30, 2013

If you don't already know the story of that season, lucky you; even now, it exerts a ridiculous thrill.

| Sep 30, 2013

Rush is an outsize Hollywood spectacle about two outsize personalities in conflict, a sleekly assembled thrill machine that makes up in excitement for what it lacks in nuance.

| Sep 29, 2013

Rush is not a particularly deep film. But more importantly, it is not a film that mistakes itself for deep. And this self-knowledge makes Rush, in some ways, a wiser film than many that aspire to loftier goals.

| Sep 27, 2013

The British Hunt is Maverick to the Austrian Lauda's Iceman, the Michael to his Sonny, the id to Lauda's superego.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 27, 2013

Ron Howard has brought this story to life with unbridled energy, transforming each race into an adrenaline-charged vignette that could serve as a master class in staging and editing action scenes.

| Original Score: 2.1/2 | Sep 27, 2013

This is a deeply adult drama, not least because Howard shows the costs of being so driven in a sport in which a driver is encased in a potential fireball.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 27, 2013

Rush may begin as a two-man race, but Brühl's Lauda wins by a landslide.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2013

One thing's for sure with this film: You carry the "Rush" out of the theater.

| Original Score: B | Sep 27, 2013

Rush has an elemental simplicity about it. Two men in competition, driven (so to speak) to win. They are enemies. But they need each other, too, and as they roll around at 170 m.p.h., they come to understand why.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 27, 2013

This is no mere thrill ride by two real-life rival speedsters, although it is certainly that. The film also provides a sobering look at what it takes to be a true champion.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 26, 2013

Howard proves that directing action is one of his underrated strengths. The racing scenes are dynamic and easy to follow, with a sheen that brings the 1970s into sharp relief.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 26, 2013

This is entertaining enough, but ultimately it's spuriously triumphant Oscar-baiting fluff.

| Sep 26, 2013

Hemsworth and Brühl are outstanding. Their story is what drives the movie, two men different in every way except for their unyielding desire to win.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 26, 2013