pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
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FUN
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how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
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how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Nobody has rated this on FlickFeel yet. This is public discussion of this title, read into a curve. It is not a rating and it never becomes one.
Read from 113 comments (85 from Reddit, 26 from Metacritic, 2 from TMDB reviews) — 41 of them described how it moves.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. It tightens hardest around the middle. Marked above the line: 2 that landed as a blow, 3 that gave people chills.
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“the scene with Yusuke and Koji in the car, where Koji continues the story that Oto was telling was one of the most intense scenes ever put on film”
pokupokupoku · Reddit ↗
“The park scene and the final performance were each so emotional and beautiful for me I couldn’t help but tear up (and surprisingly both scenes were the most emotional for me for the entire movie)”
communist_chicken · Reddit ↗
“The payoff is quite lackluster”
SilentCaveat · Reddit ↗
“They could have easily cut down the first act”
SilentCaveat · Reddit ↗
“The payoffs at the end didn't merit the 3 hour run time to me”
Ghost-E · Reddit ↗
“the opening 40 minutes and the auditions felt unnecessary. The entire first act pre credits could be trimmed and not significantly alter the movie.”
Ghost-E · Reddit ↗
Read 24 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.
“Where once Hamaguchi’s film-making language had seemed to me at the level of jeu d’esprit, now it ascends to something with passion and even a kind of grandeur.”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 100
“Nearly every scene of this richly novelistic movie — which won the festival’s screenplay prize — teems with ideas about grief and betrayal, the nature of acting, the possibility (and impossibility) of catharsis through art, and the simple bliss of watching lights and landscapes fly past your car window.”
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times · 100
“Hamaguchi has made a profoundly beautiful film about making peace with the role in front of you, and playing it with all your might.”
Robbie Collin, The Telegraph · 100
“Drive My Car is not most films, its story told in minute, passing details that cannot help but grip the attention to the point that the emotional tension and catharsis feel so effortless that hours seem to pass in an instant. That very little happens in the way of narrative action speaks to how brilliantly Hamaguchi harnesses the emotions of his characters into compelling drama.”
Christopher Machell, CineVue · 100
“Hamaguchi’s touch — delicate, precise, restrained, gentle — overwhelms in increments. His reserve is essential to his visual and narrative approach but also feels like a worldview.”
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 24 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 94, the watch 64
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“the scene with Yusuke and Koji in the car, where Koji continues the story that Oto was telling was one of the most intense scenes ever put on film”
pokupokupoku▲ 547about 50–75% inread it ↗
“The park scene and the final performance were each so emotional and beautiful for me I couldn’t help but tear up (and surprisingly both scenes were the most emotional for me for the entire movie)”
communist_chicken▲ 485about 80–90% inread it ↗
“The payoff is quite lackluster”
SilentCaveat▲ 142about 75–100% inread it ↗
“They could have easily cut down the first act”
SilentCaveat▲ 142about 0–33% inread it ↗
“even that is subdued”
TVJerryabout 80–100% inread it ↗
“Thanks to French German ARTE Channel for showing a crisp copy of "Drive My Car" ドライブ・マイ・カ. One can only recommend watching this gem of a movie. It delivers on so many levels. No wonder it won an Oscar for best foreign film. The script by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Ōe is fantastic. "Manhattan Dating Project" director Alex von Roon remembers vividly how one of his Berlin friends used to try not to catch any red lights in order to go easy on the brakes of his "Silberpfeil" Saab 900. Also a post ”
Zenblonderead it ↗
“"Kafuku" (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is an accomplished stage actor who is directing a performance of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" with a group of young actors. He arrives at the venue in his red Saab motor car, determined that only he will drive himself. That's not the policy of the theatre, though, and soon he is placed in the capable hands of the somewhat laconic "Misaki" (Tôko Miura) and as the two start to get used to one and other, and he starts to get to know his new cast, the story unfolds revealin”
CinemaSerfread it ↗
“I find this film to be a near perfect drama. I understand that most Americans and perhaps younger viewers everywhere will not appreciate the pacing of the movie. There are two things about this movie that make it an actor's movie. First is the play within the play: the play within is Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, and, like most Russian classics, it's about the human condition and the response to suffering. It's the play within the play because the film slowly reveals a mirror of Chekhov's play itsel”
badelfread it ↗
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