Baby Driver

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	Ansel Elgort	Baby
	Jon Bernthal	Griff
	Jon Hamm	Buddy
	Eiza González	Darling
	Micah Howard	Barista
	Lily James	Debora
	Morgan Brown	Street Preacher
	Kevin Spacey	Doc
	Morse Diggs	Morse Diggs
	CJ Jones	Joseph
	Sky Ferreira	Baby's Mom
	Lance Palmer	Baby's Dad
	Hudson Meek	Young Baby
	Viviana Chavez	Diner Waitress
	Hal Whiteside	Cook
	Flea	Eddie
	Lanny Joon	JD
	Jamie Foxx	Bats
	Clay Donahue Fontenot	Marine
	Brigitte Kali Canales	Young Mother
	Patrick R. Walker	Frat Boy #1
	Ben VanderMey	Frat Boy #2
	D.R. Lewis	Waiter
	Big Boi	Restaurant Patron #1
	Killer Mike	Restaurant Patron #2

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Director	Edgar Wright
Writer	Edgar Wright
Producer	Tim Bevan, James Biddle, Liza Chasin, Eric Fellner, Adam Merims, Nira Park, Rachael Prior, Leo Thompson, Edgar Wright, Michelle Wright
Musician	Steven Price
Photography	Bill Pope

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Baby Driver pulls onto Blu-ray with a 1080p transfer that doesn't often excite. Detailing is fine, but never exemplary. The transfer picks up peach fuzz on Baby's face, adequately reveals the texturing of scars on his cheek and forehead, and captures basic pores and clothing textures with suitable ease but not substantial depth or nuance. The image occasionally pushes a bit smudgy, and environmental or object details, like cars, building façades, or Baby's cassette tape or iPod collection, don't often find the sort of high yield crisp detailing one might expect the format and a new release to deliver. Colors are punchy but there's not often significant nuance or depth. A vibrant red car leads off the movie and other vehicles, blood, a glittery pink iPod case, and other color examples yield enough dazzle to please at a core level, but the palette often looks a little washed out. Black levels push somewhat murky, embrace a mildly purple shade at times, border on soupy crush at others, and are prone to noise; a dinner date scene around the 44-minute mark is a good example. Flesh tones don't show significant depth or saturation. Noise and mild blockiness may be seen throughout. This was a tough one to numerically score. It looks fine in places, looks rather poor in others. 3.0 might be a touch on the low end and 3.5 a touch on the high end; 3.25 is probably more representative of what to expect.

As is the Sony norm, Baby Driver's Blu-ray receives a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack while the companion day-and-date UHD release secures a Dolby Atmos presentation. The 5.1 track delivers a quality listen. Music engages the stage to begin the film, with lyrics and instrumental details poking out of every speaker, individualized elements playing within the greater harmonious presentation. Music doesn't alway offer so much pinpoint elemental positioning, usually playing with a fairly standard surround engagement, quality width, back end and subwoofer support, and clarity that suits the film's music-heavy presentation very well. Gunshots ring out with satisfying depth, whether muffled shotgun blasts heard at distance at the beginning of the film or more pronounced and up-close shots during a robbery of an armored car later in the film. The final act does up the ante considerably, with much heavier bass, spacing, and intensity than anything else heard in the film. Light atmospheric effects fill in some gaps. Dialogue is clear and detailed and always well prioritized. This is a very good track, but it does lack the fullness and greater precision found on the UHD's Atmos track.

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