Rush Reviews
The Standard
Rush has set the bar remarkably high for any filmmaker who dares to attempt a movie about formula one in the future.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Aisle Seat
The best biopics make the viewer understand why the subject is important to them, even if it's not. They find a universality in the topic that sucks you in. Rush never does that.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Tucson Weekly
Without a doubt, one of the most overrated films of 2013.
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| Original Score: 2.25/5
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Ron Howard and Peter Morgan are a pair to draw to - and 'Rush' deserves to draw an audience.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
... An incisive character study cloaked in a thrilling, adrenaline-fueled sports picture.
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| Original Score: A
Laramie Movie Scope
In most films about car racing, the story seems to be neglected, an afterthought. Not so in this excellent drama about the rivalry between two great race car drivers.
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| Original Score: B+
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Ron Howard, working with Danny Boyle's favored cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, has made perhaps his most visually arresting work in three decades behind the camera.
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| Original Score: B
ABC Radio Brisbane
Rush provides an exciting sporting spectacle but more importantly, it makes a few thought-provoking observations about the value of a great rivalry.
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| Original Score: B+
Screenwize
The dramatic events of the 1976 Formula One Championship are played out as superficial rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
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| Original Score: 3/5
American Profile
Ron Howard adds another winner to his resume with this hip, cool-running crowd pleaser that's also a terrifically made movie all-around.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Film Threat
An overrated racing picture that literally goes nowhere fast.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Works reasonably well in its Hollywoodized way.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Three Movie Buffs
Lacks an emotional punch, but the racing scenes are exceptionally well-filmed.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Matt's Movie Reviews
With Rush, Howard has not only made one of his best films but has also proven that the combination of car racing and movie need not be a lemon.
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| Original Score: 4/5
FILMINK (Australia)
Rush is Howard's most exciting, compelling, and utterly entertaining film in years, and feels like a movie made by a much, much younger filmmaker.
Cinemalogue.com
Morgan knows his stuff behind the wheel, but also is smart enough to realize the more compelling drama comes off the track.
Grantland
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.
Movieline
One of the best films this year - or any year. Certainly the finest film about auto racing I've seen because it focuses on the human element.
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| Original Score: 5/5
AALBC.com
A compelling, high-octane thriller, literally and figuratively!
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| Original Score: 4/4
Top CriticIf you don't already know the story of that season, lucky you; even now, it exerts a ridiculous thrill.
