McLaren review – classy F1 documentary

Roger Donaldson’s handsomely assembled documentary racetracks the career of the late Formula One driver and racing car engineer Bruce McLaren. The talking heads are framed by captions that at times make the film look like a classy PowerPoint presentation, but its mix of lovely, fuzzy archive footage and pretty reconstructions makes it feel like a kind of docufiction. It lacks the ingenuity of Asif Kapadia’s superior F1 doc Senna, but is worth a watch nonetheless.