F1: The Movie
Warner Bros. | Release Date: June 27, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 57 Critic Reviews
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100
Original-CinKim HughesJun 25, 2025
Digressive, sure, but hot damn the film is fun, its 155-minute running time as slick as the track at Monza in a rainstorm. And just in time for summer. Read full review
91
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJun 24, 2025
Nothing is exactly new in F1, yet at the same time it is all immensely, rewardingly renewable – a true blue box of recycled cinematic trash, compacted into something irresistibly bright and shiny. Read full review
88
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiJun 17, 2025
Is “F1” too long? Absolutely. But not once did I say, “Are we there yet?” Read full review
85
Film ThreatAlan NgJul 3, 2025
The story may be light, but the execution is strong, and the performances are engaging. It’s one of my go-to movies to see again this year, and it’s worth watching in a premium format. Read full review
83
ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerJun 17, 2025
It's easy to imagine Tom Cruise watching F1 and seething with jealousy. Because the racing sequences look like they were as thrilling to shoot as they are to watch. Read full review
80
iChristina NewlandJun 30, 2025
Whether you’re a racing fan, have watched Netflix’s F1: Drive to Survive, or are a newcomer to the sport altogether, F1 uses old-fashioned, engine-revving storytelling. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 25, 2025
A fun and thrilling film which at times plays like a car race somebody stuck a movie into the middle of. Read full review
80
NMENick LevineJun 25, 2025
Buckle up and enjoy the ride, safe in the knowledge that the tyre talk never gets too overwhelming. Read full review
80
The New YorkerJustin ChangJun 25, 2025
Again and again, “F1” finds fresh pathways into familiar material; it keeps its surface-level moves unpredictable even though its overarching trajectory isn’t. Read full review
80
Time OutPhil de SemlyenJun 18, 2025
It’s hard to draw too much old-school romance from this world of sponsorship, celebrity and sports washing, but F1 manages it on the back of Pitt’s earthy charm. Watch it rev into the canon of great sports movies. Motion sickness tablets recommended. Read full review
80
EmpireSophie ButcherJun 17, 2025
Joseph Kosinski has done it again. F1 combines unparalleled access, pioneering filmmaking and moving redemption arcs to deliver an exhilarating cinematic experience. What will he attach a camera to next? Read full review
80
TimeStephanie ZacharekJun 17, 2025
It all boils down to the actor, and how good he is at vibing with universal aging-guy feelings, including the realization that your grandest achievements may be behind you. Brad Pitt, at 61, has finally aged into roles like these. And sometimes, as F1 proves, they’re the best thing that can happen to a guy. Read full review
80
Little White LiesAdam WoodwardJun 17, 2025
The reck­less tac­tics and brazen skull­dug­gery employed by Hayes are car­ried off with a know­ing wink and a toothy grin, but are also plain­ly ludi­crous – to the extent you may end up park­ing your sus­pen­sion of dis­be­lief. Still, when the results are this thrilling, it seems churl­ish to nit­pick about such fan­ci­ful nar­ra­tive manoeuvres. Read full review
80
ColliderRoss BonaimeJun 17, 2025
F1 is an absolute blast and one of the most exciting films to come out this summer, a film that will put you on the edge of your seat and make you glad that filmmakers like Kosinski are still making films like this today. Read full review
80
Rolling StoneDavid FearJun 17, 2025
Come for the most impressive, lustrous car that a gajillion-dollar budget can buy. The reason to stay, however, is the driver. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeJun 17, 2025
Of course, there are some unrealistic elements in F1, moments that might have sticklers raising an eyebrow, but the film doesn’t feel any less dramatic than the real thing. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinJun 17, 2025
It’s a film which understands the pleasure of seeing familiar roads driven with consummate expertise. The F does stand for formula, after all. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 17, 2025
There’s a fair bit of macho silliness here, but the panache with which director Joseph Kosinski puts it together is very entertaining. Read full review
80
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiJun 17, 2025
It might be a Formula One promotional movie at its core, but at least it’s a damn good film. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 27, 2025
“F1” is a shiny, streamlined and perfectly aerodynamic version of an old fashioned star vehicle. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 26, 2025
The effectiveness of the film’s overall aesthetic cannot be understated: what F1 lacks in narrative development it more than compensates for with its thrill-ride aspects. Watching the film, you may not believe you’re in a racing car but you will feel like you’re doing more than passively sitting in a theater seat. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayJun 25, 2025
There’s no better time for a throwback than summer, and “F1 the Movie” is here to send audiences to a blissful era before constant cape slop, when the movies were loud, their stars were hot and the male main-character energy was flowing with exhilarating abandon. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldJun 25, 2025
Though it’s fun watching Pitt swanning about in his nonchalant way — and a delight to see Kerry Condon, as a F1 technical director, finding some playful chemistry with him — this movie is entirely about the driving, and the speed. Read full review
75
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJun 19, 2025
It’s something of a miracle that F1 remains as compelling as it is, mainly thanks to its cast and the visceral nature of Kosinski’s filmmaking. Read full review
75
The Associated PressJake CoyleJun 17, 2025
When “F1” does, finally, quiet down, for one blissful moment, the movie, almost literally, soars. It’s not quite enough to forget all the high-octane macho dramatics before it, but it’s enough to glimpse another road “F1” might have taken. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyJordan HoffmanJun 17, 2025
For flash and rumble, F1 doesn't have an equal this summer. Roll down the windows and enjoy the ride. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittJun 17, 2025
As an aging wheelman-for-hire on an underdog racing team, Pitt brings plenty of personality – and vroom-vroom steeliness – to the on-the-track thrills of the crowd-pleasing if mildly predictable F1. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJake ColeJun 17, 2025
F1 succeeds for many of the same reasons that Top Gun: Maverick does: for elevating familiar material with old-school filmmaking swagger. Read full review
70
The AtlanticDavid SimsJul 1, 2025
Sonny’s quest to prove his doubters wrong resembles the arc of many a sports drama. But Kosinski elevates that journey by capturing racing in all of its gorgeous, peculiar glory—there’s never been a portrait of Formula One quite like it. Read full review
70
ScreenCrushMatt SingerJun 30, 2025
F1 never quite says “It’s not the car, it’s the driver” — but it comes awfully close on several occasions. And it makes it clear that when it comes to action movies, it’s not the subject, it’s the director. That strikes me as a pretty old fashioned notion, and a good one. Read full review
70
SlateSam AdamsJun 30, 2025
Pitt can mock his absurdly good-looking younger self in part because he knows he’s got something more valuable now: the kind of magnetism that mere attractiveness can’t compete with. Read full review
70
LooperDominic GriffinJun 27, 2025
At the end of the day, the roar of the engines is loud enough to drown out any meaningful discussions about the intersection of commerce and art. For a movie about cars racing fast, it delivers. Read full review
70
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJun 26, 2025
What finally holds all the hokum together is Pitt. Even though the movie keeps ramming home the idea that Formula One racing is a team sport, Sonny’s outlaw vibe is clearly its focus. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonJun 26, 2025
The pleasures of “F1” are engineered to bypass the brain. It’s muscular and thrilling and zippy, even though at over two-and-a-half hours long, it has a toy dump truck’s worth of plot. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 26, 2025
An enjoyably arranged collection of all the visual attractions and narrative clichés that money can buy, “F1” is very simply about the satisfactions of genre cinema and the pleasures of watching appealing characters navigate fast, exotic cars that whine like juiced-up mosquitoes. It’s also about the pleasures of that ultrasmooth performance machine, Brad Pitt. Read full review
70
IGNClint GageJun 17, 2025
It's a faithful devotee to the sports-movie formula that’s kept from greatness by a few too many unnecessary components and a finish line that maybe should’ve been closer than two and a half hours away. But in spite of that, it’s still a hell of a ride. Read full review
70
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJun 17, 2025
An old-school Jerry Bruckheimer-produced spectacular, albeit one that never deviates from a familiar summer blockbuster course and, consequently, fails to truly kick into adrenalized overdrive. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonJun 17, 2025
Scintillating on the track but not as agile away from the races, F1 is a thrilling sports film susceptible to every cliché of its genre, confident that its expert setpieces will outrun all that is otherwise derivative about this underdog story. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubJason GorberJun 26, 2025
F1 feels, at times, like an underbaked episode of Netflix’s docuseries Drive To Survive—albeit one with Top Gun-style editing, incredible access, and enough drama to make someone bored of the racing become enthralled with the gladiatorial characters behind the wheel of these incredible machines. Read full review
67
The Film StageKent M. WilhelmJun 23, 2025
Kosinski delivers a solid entry for 2025’s summer session: a slick, glossy blockbuster that’s a feast for the senses and easy on the brain. Read full review
65
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerJun 27, 2025
The overall structure of the movie is just race, break for argument, race, occasional montage, race some more; it gets a steady rhythm going but it’s not exactly white-knuckle suspense, either. Read full review
63
San Francisco ChronicleMichael OrdoñaJun 30, 2025
Despite traversing such a familiar track, “F1” delivers something made expressly for the big screen experience. What keeps it from being purely the kind of “theme park” Martin Scorsese demeaned in his criticism of Marvel movies is the Pitt of it all; fortunately for “F1,” it’s always Sonny on the human side. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comRobert DanielsJun 26, 2025
This film doesn’t rumble through its 156-minute runtime; it flies by. And though “F1” has little to say about the sport’s past, present, or future, the propulsive ride it engineers isn’t a wasted diversion. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 26, 2025
F1 is a pretty decent summer picture, and if it were half as crisp off the track as it is on the track, we’d really have something. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreJun 29, 2025
This is Pitt’s movie, and like its star, it never opens itself up enough to truly take off. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithJun 27, 2025
“F1” is a fun, exciting, predictable popcorn picture so formulaic it even contains a reference to formula in its title. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeJun 24, 2025
F1 really is too thuddingly familiar for words. Drop a bowling ball off a cliff and you would be less sure of its trajectory. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanJun 17, 2025
We go into “F1” excited about being excited, and the film makes good on that. It’s nothing if not an adrenaline high. Yet it’s a high that may leave you feeling a bit empty afterwards. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJun 17, 2025
The action is hardly dull, but the sheer disconnect between the wowee zowee immediacy of the race footage and the mezzo mezzo excitement it inspires suggests that tuning out the noise isn’t as easy as Sonny Hayes might seem to think. Read full review
47
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiJun 17, 2025
Kosinski’s antiseptic visual style and Ehren Kruger’s limp screenplay (with a co-story credit by Kosinski himself) make 'F1 The Movie' an incredibly sterile film about virility. It’s so manly it can barely perform. Read full review
45
The Film VerdictAlonso DuraldeJun 27, 2025
F1 doggedly follows the expected ups and downs of most sports-movie narratives, and it’s clearly more interested in recreating the experience of racing than telling a story or crafting a character piece. Read full review
45
SlashfilmWitney SeiboldJun 17, 2025
At a bloated 156 minutes, audiences will have too ample time to ponder the film's many weaknesses. The racing will be exciting — very exciting, in fact — and Pitt is certainly a movie star, but quite frankly, I can have my own midlife crisis, thank you. I don't need to watch Pitt's. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerJun 26, 2025
The real engine that keeps the movie moving isn’t the cliched script or the spectacular race footage. It’s Pitt. Read full review
40
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyJun 24, 2025
While director Joseph Kosinski and cinematographer Claudio Miranda can certainly shoot cars as well as they can planes – it’s all plumes of smoke from the tyres and the bone-rattling rumble of starting engines – F1 represents the spiritually bone-dry, abrasive inverse to all of Maverick’s giddy pleasures. Read full review
40
BBCNicholas BarberJun 17, 2025
Formula One enthusiasts may disagree, and they may be delighted that their beloved motorsport has been put on the big screen in such a laudatory fashion. Everyone else: this is not where you want to be. Read full review
40
The TimesKevin MaherJun 17, 2025
There’s an unashamedly “enthusiastic” cross-promotional quality to the film, like a two-and-a-half-hour Formula 1 commercial, that never quite gels with its hoary central story. Read full review
38
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenJan 28, 2026
F1: The Movie is a corporate conglomerate on cinematic wheels. Read full review
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