Director Edgar Wright, a master subverter of genre, brings his unique voice to the heist and car chase film with the pulsating, music-fueled “Baby Driver.”
Wright, who directed and co-wrote “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz” and “The World’s End” with Simon Pegg and directed and co-wrote “Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World,” tends to make comedic homages to his favorite genres. He takes familiar tropes and flips expectations to not only comment on the genre itself but to make a comment on the characters that inhabit his stories.
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