"I definitely went into F1: The Movie knowing what I was in for, an answer to the hypothetical: what if the bougiest sport on God's green earth was turned into a western? But you can't help going along for the ride once Brad Pitt starts filling the frame with his blue-eyed winks, wry smiles and Butch Cassidy swagger. I should've been more indignant about this martinet sport making a literal hero out of the biggest rogue on the grid."
"Jos Safdie's ping-pong epic is fitted out with one brilliantly imagined sequence after another, any of which could qualify as the year's best. The death camp honey-licking? The orange-ball sales pitch? The Chalamet ass-whipping? But I think on balance the most eye-popping bit of all is, of all things, its animated opening credits sequence, which follows, shall we say, a spermatozoa race to the ovum, a pseudo-real version of what Woody Allen got up to in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex."
Brad Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, a roguish Formula One driver whose charisma and aggressive tactics drive him toward a dramatic season finale in Abu Dhabi. Sonny's bumping and tactical maneuvers, supported by wingman Damson Idris, lead to a sacrificial act that helps secure the team's first victory and thwarts a hostile takeover, with Lewis Hamilton appearing in a cameo. Jos Safdie's ping-pong film strings together wildly inventive set pieces — death-camp honey-licking, an orange-ball sales pitch, a Chalamet ass-whipping and a ping-pong club-as-mob-lounge — culminating in an animated opening that tracks a spermatozoa race to an ovum.
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