F1: The Movie” takes viewers inside the exciting world of Formula One auto racing. The director is Joseph Kosinski, best known for taking “Top Gun: Maverick” to the top of the yearly box office three ...

As of June 26, 2025, F1: The Movie holds an 86% critic score based on 147 reviews. In comparison, Top Gun: Maverick has a 96% critic score from 476 reviews and a 99% verified audience score.

In F1: The Movie, Brad Pitt and Top Gun: Maverick director place audiences in the driver's seat of an F1 car for a high-speed summer blockbuster.

If you're wondering just how realistic Joseph Kosinski and Brad Pitt's F1 movie was, here's what real F1 drivers think about the film.

‘F1: The Movie’ Review: Brad Pitt Goes Zoom In tanned, tousled form, the actor stars in a Formula 1 story about fast cars, last chances and pretty people by the director of “Top Gun ...

The problem with making an underdog sports movie that stars Brad Pitt is . . . Brad Pitt. Though taunted as “elderly” by a younger Formula One driver in “F1 the Movie,” his character still ...

BOTTOM LINE A seductive fantasy built around cool cars and an even cooler Brad Pitt. Fast cars, classic rock, Brad Pitt’s pecs — "F1 The Movie" is precisely engineered to achieve summer ...

F1 the Movie swaps Tom Cruise with Brad Pitt as a talented-but-washed up lead (who is always right about everything, of course), and replaces fighter jets with Formula One racers.

A true racing spectacle, “F1: The Movie” runs a victory lap. It’s a great sports movie, with heart-pumping action, superb performances and fascinating characters.

“F1” is breathless and occasionally breathtaking, if a bit overlong. But as mindless summer-movie action goes, it gets the job done nicely, writes Moira Macdonald.

F1 could have stood a little more of the humor that Ron Shelton brought to Bull Durham rather than just having the two men periodically shove one another against walls in frustration, but the stakes ...