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"The email from Larry was pretty straightforward: &amp;quot;Just got word there&amp;#039;s a prescreening of Rush tomorrow night in the Big Apple. Can you please make contact with the person below and go see it?&amp;quot;  Rhetorical question of the year. So Wednesday evening, I found myself in the screening room at the Bryant Park Hotel with around 15 other people, and Ron Howard&amp;#039;s hotly anticipated docudrama .  Now, I&amp;#039;m not allowed to be too &amp;quot;review-y&amp;quot; here. A full review is verboten until release time in September. But here&amp;#039;s what I&amp;#039;ll say for now.  It&amp;#039;s the best racing movie.  As Krewson just said to me over IM, &amp;quot;Well, that&amp;#039;s a low bar.&amp;quot; True enough, but there&amp;#039;s a reason the others generally fall flat as entertainment. Grand Prix has perhaps the best racing footage ever, but the story is plodding melodrama. Steve McQueen is The Man, and the Porsche 917 is an icon, but the screenplay for Le Mans could fit on a cocktail napkin. Days of Thunder? It&amp;#039;s Top Gun at Daytona. A good time, but it&amp;#039;s cinematic junk food.  Rush separates itself because it&amp;#039;s a good story. A real story. Told by a master storyteller. That&amp;#039;s what makes it work so well, beyond the visual and stylistic flourishes so plainly evident in the new trailer.  Ron Howard takes a subject\u2014the Lauda/Hunt rivalry and the 1976 Formula 1 World Championship\u2014that is about as non-mainstream as it gets, and makes it accessible, entertaining, and emotionally involving.  So you R&amp;amp;amp;T readers? You&amp;#039;ll love it. More importantly, however, so will the friends you bring with you who don&amp;#039;t know or care a whit about F1.  Which is the hallmark of a good movie. We&amp;#039;ll talk more when it comes out.  Now, let&amp;#039;s all watch that new theatrical trailer: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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