The summer’s first blockbuster screeches into cinemas next week, and it’s a car crash of a movie. But in a good way, mostly. The star of F1 is Brad Pitt, and Joseph Kosinski, who cemented his reputation as a fine action-film director with 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, is at the wheel.

Brad Pitt really enjoyed playing a race car driver in his new film “F1: The Movie,” but it’s not the same for him when driving off screen.