Following the New York premiere of F1: The Movie on Monday evening, the first reviews of the film from critics have been coming in, and they’ve been generally favorable.

Brad Pitt hit Times Square Monday night for the premiere of his new movie F1. The film stars Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a fictional F1 driver who makes a comeback to racing after losing his career decades earlier following a serious car crash.

The wide-screen spectacle of Formula One gets a gleaming, rip-roaring workout in Joseph Kosinski’s “F1,” a fine-tuned machine of a movie that, in its most riveting racing scenes, approaches a kind of high-speed splendor.