Baby Driver

THE GIST: Baby is a highly skilled driver who's being coerced by a crime boss into being the getaway driver for the heists he plans until he has finished paying off a debt. The robbers he meets are varying degrees of dangerous, but Baby just dreams of being free of his debt and driving off into the sunset.

Baby Driver is a very well written, high-speed heist movie with a set of fully developed characters at its center, and a couple side-stories that make it whole.

Ansel Elgort is excellent at playing the laser-focused, talented young driver. Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Eiza González, and Jamie Foxx are fantastic as well. Lily James is simply adorable and sparks fly whenever she and Elgort are together.

Kevin Spacey is very good and easily the best actor in the cast. This was one of the last movies he made before being ensnared by the sexual-harassment scandal that torpedoed his career. He's trying to restart it now, but only time will tell if he'll succeed. It certainly is hard to get the knowledge out of one's mind while watching him onscreen, which is too bad.

THE BOTTOM LINE: A very entertaining movie that never let's you down. Highly recommended.

Grade: 8