Rush is an outsize Hollywood spectacle about two outsize personalities in conflict, a sleekly assembled thrill machine that makes up in excitement for what it lacks in nuance.
– Dana Stevens,
Slate,
29 Sep 2013
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If you don't already know the story of that season, lucky you; even now, it exerts a ridiculous thrill.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
30 Sep 2013
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The script is another Peter Morgan special. Like, say, The Queen and Frost/Nixon, it's a speculative duet built around a moment of newsworthiness.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
30 Sep 2013
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Considering the subject matter, Rush delivers the expected visceral jolts; what's surprising is how endearing it is, even when its two protagonists are behaving like little more than boys with very fast toys.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
31 Dec 2013
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An entertaining movie with two solid performances that only occasionally stalls because of its sometimes heavy-handed treatment of Hunt and Lauda's differences.