Eight Men Out

  • 1989


MOVIE IS serious fascinating american artistic
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86 % Certified Fresh
$ 5 Million
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Positive Reviews 19
Negative reviews 5
Average Rating 3.6/5
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2.5
Then theres a courtroom scene, which is less about baseball than about the standard cliches of all courtroom scenes. Rogerebert
4.5
Perhaps the saddest chapter in the annals of professional American sports is recounted in absorbing fashion in Eight Men Out. Variety
1.5
Given the inevitably knotty plotting, the message is oddly unrevealing, although the film features more than enough intelligently, wittily scripted mo .. Time Out
4.5
And thats not counting Bill Irwin, Gordon Clapp and Jace Alexander as their honest teammates.
4.0
For anyone who appreciates artistic integrity and is interested in genuinely independent films, the prolific and highly personal work of John Sayles i ..
1.5
This serious movie puts some points on the scoreboard with its messages about gamblers who corrupt the sport and players who drag the game through the .. Spirituality And Practice
3.5
Does a fine job in getting to the details of the baseball scandal. Sover
3.8
Sayles not only depicts the circumstances that led to the fix (most notably Sox owner Charles Comiskeys legendary tightfistedness), but he also re cre .. Tv Guide
3.0
Its a sad and compelling piece that is totally convincing and doesnt require a knowledge of baseball (just rounders with chest hair). Radio Times
4.5
The story is lumpy in spots, but fine performances and expressive camera work carry the day. Cs Monitor
4.4
A fascinating survey of the events leading up to the scandal and the sad results that followed. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.5
And thats one of the problems with Sayles approach to the film: He presumes the viewer knows an awful lot and it doesnt help that the movie is crowded .. Mountain X
3.8
In 1988, writer director John Sayles made his most ambitious film to date with this intelligent chronicle of the 1919 sports scandal, cast with some o .. Emanuellevy
1.5
Sayles often seems like a man who, trying to stretch a single, gets caught between bases and is desperately trying to evade the rundown. Time
3.8
Men Out plays like an American Gothic, sowing the seeds of wrath. Film Freak Central
4.5
Sayles excellent film is more of a human tragedy than a sports movie meaning that even those with a limited knowledge of baseball should find it fasci .. Film 4
4.5
Hes woven each of the storys complex strands moral, psychological, political, journalistic, personal into a watershed American drama thats rich and cl .. La Times
1.5
Baseball fans might find this marginally absorbing; for anyone else its as conscientious and stylistically pedestrian as Sayless other films, and a mi .. Chicago Reader
2.5
A movie with at least eight major characters and a host of minor ones requires a skill for balance and conciseness that Sayles doesnt possess. Articles Chicago Tribune
3.8
Haas has a wide eyed look, but he isnt given a role worth playing here. Articles Chicago Tribune
4.5
Then again, Sayles doesnt quite say that owners caused the scandal not directly, anyway. Articles Orlando Sentinel
1.5
Unfortunately, the movies didacticism returns in the lengthy and somewhat tedious courtroom ending dealing with the aftermath of the Series. Articles Philly
5.0
The tone of Eight Men Out is reminiscent of the droll irony of John Hustons considerations of the vanity of human wishes and the corrupting power of m .. Articles Philly
4.5
Although Eight Men Out is a serious, sober effort... I found it neither clumsy nor doctrinaire. Archive Spectator
4.5
Credits: With John Cusack, David Strathairn, Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney. Articles Sun Sentinel
4.5
Aside from its moving study of greed, corruption and loss, the film provides a wonderful glimpse at life inthe post World War I era. Upi



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