Drive
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful… From TMDB
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| Bluesky * | 26 | 1 | 256 |
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| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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What viewers are saying
Counted from the reviewers’ own 0–10 ratings on the 7 rated TMDB user reviews we collected (7–10 positive, 5–6 mixed, 0–4 negative), not by the AI.
Viewers praise the film's direction, atmosphere, and performances. [1][2][3] Some find the pacing too slow and the main character unengaging. [4][5] The soundtrack and title sequence are widely celebrated. [6][5]
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Fate? Unknown... Drive is directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and adapted to screenplay by Hossein Amini from the novel of the same name written by James Sallis. It stars Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks and Ron Perlman. Music is by Cliff Martinez and cinematography by Newton Thomas Sigel. Driver (Gosling) has a day job, he's a Hollywood stunt man, but by …
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Drive is a cinematic triumph that delivers an unforgettable ride from beginning to end. While the storyline may seem simple at first, the film's attention to detail and intricacy of world-building truly sets it apart from the rest. Every character introduced has a connection to the crime world that is slowly pieced together, creating a puzzle that's both engaging and intriguing. This aspect of the film is truly …
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If it's got wheels, then Ryan Gosling's nameless character can use it. When he is not doing triple rolls as a movie stunt-man, he is being the freelance getaway driver for criminals who need a reliable man to get them out of trouble. His friend "Shannon" (Bryan Cranston) fancies himself as a bit of a motor sport aficionado and suggests to his wealthy (and pretty crooked) pal "Bernie" (Albert Brooks) that he chip in …
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RIP Kavinsky. The DRIVE (2011) title sequence (and prologue) is just one of the most magnetic and successful sequences in movie history and it's impossible to imagine any track other than "Nightcall" in it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc_z...
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Ironically, a movie about getaway drivers and car chases was much too slow for me. Lots and lots of silent staring. Drive cuts most of its dialogue, creating a mysterious and captivating main character, but its slow pacing that drags despite some fantastic car chases and gore-filled moments of action drained most of the excitement. The lack of dialogue forces actors to give incredible performances with their eyes, …
Summarised from 34 of the 99 public posts collected about this film; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
7 TMDB reviewers rated Drive: 4 positive, 3 mixed, 0 negative. The thing fans bring up: direction and cinematography are outstanding. Did it land for you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Drive grossed $81.4 million worldwide. In North America, the film grossed a total of $35.1 million. The film opened in North America earning $11.3 million on the weekend of September 16, 2011, and played at 2,866 theaters. It was one of four wide releases that opened that weekend and came in second. The other three new releases included the re-release of The Lion King on 3D, which was the top film, along with the Straw Dogs remake and the romantic comedy I Don't Know How She Does It. The film closed its North American theatrical run on February 9, 2012. In the international marketplace, Drive grossed $46.3 million. The film had its highest-grossing box office in France, where it earned a…
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Reactions
60 of 296 · most liked firstDirector-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ
neutral · AI labelView post →Pagliacci goes to see Pagliacci. He's in the audience, but also on the stage. "Is this, fuck," he thinks. "Am I in a Lynch film right now. Am I in Mullholland Drive." Captured by confusion, horror, and strange, exultant sorrow, the clown must admit he is no longer depressed
neutral · AI labelView post →Film Director David Lynch has passed away at the age of 78. Some of his most notable works include ‘Mulholland Drive’, ‘Twin Peaks’, ‘The Elephant Man’, ‘Blue Velvet’ & more.
neutral · AI labelView post →The world premiere of Blazing Saddles (1974) took place at Pickwick Drive-In Theater, Burbank, CA. All 250 invited guests, including Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, watched Mel Brooks' beloved film on horseback.
neutral · AI labelView post →Does anyone have that post that’s like I can’t let my girlfriend watch the movie Drive because I stole my personality from the main character in the film
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie: “Mulholland Drive” (2001), directed by David Lynch
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Kavinsky. The DRIVE (2011) title sequence (and prologue) is just one of the most magnetic and successful sequences in movie history and it's impossible to imagine any track other than "Nightcall" in it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc_z...
positive · AI labelView post →best of karen part 5, i really like the movie Drive (2011)
positive · AI labelView post →Gang, I am so excited to be on The Last Drive In tonight. I've been a fan of Joe Bob's reviews since the 80s. Watched him on TNT in the 90s. Got to see him live several times at the Chattanooga Film Fest. And Jess & I have been avid viewers of the Last Drive In since their one night marathon. STOKED
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm devastated to hear about the passing of Rebekah Del Rio. She was an incredible talent and will be sorely missed. Her performance in Mulholland Drive is one of the greatest moments in any David Lynch film.
neutral · AI labelView post →🙏🕯️ Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78, - Variety
neutral · AI labelView post →Drive in movie 🎞️🚘 for puppyprojects #furryart #furryoc #retro #50s #60s
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Mullholland Drive, my first David Lynch movie, and wow I did not expect that emotional gut punch 2/3rds of the way through the movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Going to see Baby Yoda movie in the Drive-In tonight, and my kids are so hyped
neutral · AI labelView post →Mulholland Drive is a movie about the dangers of getting too into community theater
neutral · AI labelView post →Christ on a cracker, ONSLAUGHT rips. The bastard child of John Carpenter and James Cameron, this is a the movie that should have played third at a Drive-In in 1987 after ROBOCOP and MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE. And that’s the whole point. Bonus 80s points for Reginald Valjohnson! So much brutal fun!
neutral · AI labelView post →Spending the night with a couple hundred of my closest Drive-In mutants. All night monster movie marathon like the 80s kid in me always wanted me to spend Halloween watching. Hosted by the legendary Joe Bob Briggs. Let’s. Fucking. Go.
neutral · AI labelView post →I feel like ABC passing on the Mulholland Drive pilot and it becoming its own film through StudioCanal has got to be the best blessings in disguise ever considering how the film turned out.
neutral · AI labelView post →it might be Drive. that was the first film I ever wrote about professionally & for $, and that piece inadvertently became my calling card. it convinced a few other editors to let me write for them - not just film essays but automotive writing, too.
positive · AI labelView post →Got to see Mulholland Drive on the big screen tonight and yeah, it's still my favorite movie ever.
positive · AI labelView post →I cannot recommend the film Endless Cookie enough. A distinctly "Canadian" film. If it's playing near you, go see it! Seek it out! Drive to the town over! This film rules!
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 25th anniversary to MULHOLLAND DRIVE, the best movie of the 21st century if you ask me!
positive · AI labelView post →Mulholland Drive (Film: 2001 / DVD: 2002) 🔊
neutral · AI labelView post →it's since become a meme and lost a lot of its power, but the scariest scene in movie history when I first saw it was the Winkie's scene in MULHOLLAND DRIVE. Incredible execution and sold by Patrick Fischler whose flawless performance vibrates on the exact same wavelength as the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is also the plot of that movie the guy from Drive made after Drive
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie: “Drive” (2011), directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
neutral · AI labelView post →An abandoned Drive-In Movie Theater — Buena Vista, Colorado
neutral · AI labelView post →Mulholland Drive (2001) 🎬🖤 Directed by David Lynch
neutral · AI labelView post →Uh huh. Cool. In the 1997 straight to video Sci Fi Action movie Drive, Mark Dacascos fights like six dudes with swords and three dudes on dirtbikes at the same time. Juno Reactor is playing in the background. You never have to care about marvel movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a FIlm you saw at a Drive In Theater.
neutral · AI labelView post →Before there was RUSH HOUR there was 1997's DRIVE. I'll be screening the film on July 2 with stars Mark Dacascos and Kadeem Hardison and director Steve Wang in person!! Particularly excited for this one!
neutral · AI labelView post →Drive in Cinemastreams, coming summer 2026
neutral · AI labelView post →T-minus 25 minutes! Tune in tonight to THE LAST DRIVE IN on Shudder (and AMC+) for a drive in double feature of Survival Horror films. I'll be joining Joe Bob and Darcy for the second film. Whole show begins at 9PM EST!
neutral · AI labelView post →it's spooky season! and a frightful thing: today is the 25th anniversary of the release of MULLHOLLAND DRIVE chatted with the astounding novelist Colm Toibin to understand this ultimate film about film www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf... doing another one, this time more ridiculous, coming very soon
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Drive (2011) By Ignacio RC
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP to David Lynch, director of Twin Peaks, and my personal fave Mulholland Drive. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
neutral · AI labelView post →Two movies down at the Becky’s Drive In Dusk til Dawn Movie Marathon, three to go! If you make it to the end you get a free movie pass.
neutral · AI labelView post →Drive (2011) Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
neutral · AI labelView post →'Drive My Car' remains the one and only Japanese film to be nominated for best picture in the Oscars' 96 year history. 'Drive my Car' (2021) Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Drive (2011) By Tom Ralston
neutral · AI labelView post →“Mulholland Drive? Great movie. It’s about how Los Angeles is terrible.”
positive · AI labelView post →happy 25th release - aversary to MULHOLLAND DRIVE!! got to talk with the beautiful Colm Toibin about how to understand this odd odd dream of cinema stay tuned: we're doing it again soon for a new episode about a different movie, a preposterous choice
neutral · AI labelView post →Brittish version of the movie Drive.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs The House on Haunted Hill (1959) Dir: William Castle #Movies #Film #Horror #MutantFam
neutral · AI labelView post →Drive in movie #spamtenna
neutral · AI labelView post →you know what’s a good movie? Drive My Car
positive · AI labelView post →Writer/Director David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’ (aka ‘Street Of Darkness’ • ‘The Path Of Dreams’ • ‘Dreams, Mysteries, And Secrets’) starring Naomi Watts and Laura Harring made its US debut at the Chicago International Film Festival on this day 25 years ago (Oct 6 2001) 🎥 👥 😵💫 #OTD
neutral · AI labelView post →MULHOLLAND DRIVE EXPLAINED!!!! (it’s just the whole movie)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film Drive (2011)
neutral · AI labelView post →Maybe MULHOLLAND DRIVE really is the best film ever made.
positive · AI labelView post →Mulholland Drive surpassed the million watches on Letterboxd. It’s David Lynch’s first film to do so.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film Mulholland Drive (2001)
neutral · AI labelView post →An abandoned Drive-In Movie Theater — New Jersey
neutral · AI labelView post →Abandoned Drive-In Movie Theater — New Jersey
neutral · AI labelView post →#ACenturyOfCinema, movie 91: 2001 MULHOLLAND DRIVE
neutral · AI labelView post →variety.com/2025/film/ob... Rebekah Del Rio Dead: 'Mulholland Drive' Club Silencio Singer Was 57
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite film for each year of the 21st century. 2001: Mulholland Drive #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Happy Last Drive-In Halloween Special day to all who celebrate. 🎃 I may or may not have a movie low down, and it looks like it’s gonna be a fun one. 🤐🤐 See you there! #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #HorrorSky #JoeBobBriggs
neutral · AI labelView post →25 years ago today. Mulholland Drive had its wide theatrical release in the United States on October 19, 2001 David Lynch won the Best Director Award (Prix de la mise en scène) at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival (shared with Joel Coen). #OTD #cinema
neutral · AI labelView post →Better than a Drive-In Movie 🤣
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