Gran Turismo
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 25, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 47 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
21
Negative:
7
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32
Paste MagazineAlex LeiAug 22, 2023
Through its aspatial editing, refusing to ever let a racetrack be understood in continuity, Gran Turismo becomes a cacophonous collage of experience based on real car racing as much as real videogames, but fundamentally opposed to the reality of either. Read full review
32
PolygonOli WelshAug 8, 2023
This kind of aggrieved posturing isn’t a good look in 2023. Geek culture won. Mardenborough’s story is real, and has a much more significant dimension than victory in some imagined gaming culture war. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonAug 23, 2023
The film’s visual look is as inert as its screenplay, and its attempts to make the real racing scenes look like Gran Turismo gameplay by overlaying the game’s graphics with live footage fall embarrassingly flat. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAug 10, 2023
Gran Turismo is just the same cars, going around and around and around. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreAug 24, 2023
The line between a movie and an advertisement has gotten increasingly blurry — movies used to be a way to sell toys, but now toys have become the sole basis of movies. But Gran Turismo, in its texturelessness, the lack of joy in its depictions of gameplay, its too-sleek race footage and void of a main character, is particularly egregious in what it’s doing. Read full review
20
The TelegraphTim RobeyAug 8, 2023
The thrill of the games is matched fleetingly here at best, because it feels like a simulator being put through a simulator, and not all the effects are up to snuff. Script-wise, we don’t just get Formula One, but formulae two through infinity. Read full review
20
The GuardianRyan GilbeyAug 8, 2023
Commerce contaminates the whole endeavour. Read full review
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