It’s not hollow hype to say that in Drive, the Danish directorNicolas Winding Refn has made not only the mainstream crossover of the year but also one of 2011’s best movies. A genre specialist of great formal command, Refn first made waves with his Pusher trilogy, beginning in the mid-1990s, and more recently has essayed mythic brands of macho in Valhalla Rising and Bronson—tough guy flicks not deficient in their existential questions.