Is he a mute? Is he slow? No, but Baby has a hell of a backstory involving a car crash and a rash juvenile robbery spree that put him in Doc’s debt. Members of Doc’s heist teams change, but there always seems to be one paranoid hothead who gets edgy because Baby never talks and always has headphones on. In Baby Driver, the beautiful, stringy youth Ansel Elgort plays the title character, the designated driver for an icy Atlanta crime boss who calls himself Doc (Kevin Spacey). Ditto Hot Fuzz and cop films.) Wright can’t make sense of that senselessness - he’s not God. ![]() (His marvelous first feature, Shaun of the Dead, wasn’t a satire of zombie films but of repressive English provincialism. The senselessness of human nature is his subject, genre the lens through which he studies it. He has a fanboy’s scintillating palette - flesh-eating zombies, righteous vigilante cops, stoic bank robbers in sunglasses - without a fanboy’s lack of peripheral vision. **ALL IMAGES ARE PROPERTY OF SONY PICTUĪs he proves yet again in his thrillingly syncopated heist movie Baby Driver, the 43-year-old U.K.-born Edgar Wright is just about the perfect 21st-century genre director. ![]() Photo: Wilson Webb/©2017 TriStar Pictures, Inc.
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