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The 40 Greatest Car Movies Ever Made
Gearhead classics, modern blockbusters, art-house favorites, and even some genuine obscurities.
Tom Hardy sits in a car, juggling a variety of duties: A woman he had an affair with is about to give birth, and he’s trying to make it to the hospital; he has to remotely oversee an immense “concrete pour” for a new construction (this is a way bigger deal than it sounds, trust us); and he has to explain to his family why he won’t be home to watch a big soccer match with his son. Grand Prix is arguably the more “studio” of the two: Frankenheimer was working at the height of his powers, and the racing sequences he put together with the legendary Saul Bass are eye-popping-ly intense and gorgeous, while the paint-by-numbers melodrama, about a variety of drivers engaging in a dangerous sport and the women who love and occasionally betray them, is elevated by some fine performances. Emile Hirsch’s Speed Racer is all drive as he attempts to redeem his supposedly dead brother Rex’s legacy — John Goodman and Susan Sarandon play his parents, and Christina Ricci his girlfriend, Trixie — and the Wachowskis film the family stuff with the same candy-colored freneticism they bring to the racing sequences.
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