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2012
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2.0
I dont want to give too much away, except to say that the movie is really a hybrid of the British crime thriller and another genre entirely.
Av Club
3.0
Yet the book and the film rebuff the notion that stats geeks cant love the game like the purists, so when the As enjoy their underdog triumph, its con ..
Av Club
3.0
Moneyball takes quite a while to get to anything like a big game, but when it does, as the As approach the climax of an audacious winning streak, youl ..
EW
5.0
A smart, intense and moving film that isnt so much about sports as about the war between intuition and statistics.
Rogerebert
4.0
Like a star athlete, he knows precisely when to hold back and when to go for it.Its a grand slam of a performance.
Common Sense Media
3.0
Howe is the closest thing that Moneyball has to a bad guy, and provides enough of an opposition to push Beane over the edge and see his gamble through ..
Indie Wire
3.8
Theres plenty of inspirational moments, music montages, and light humor and the ending grew quite sentimental and dragged a little.
We Got This Covered
2.5
But true to Hollywoods tireless efforts to fit square peg material into roundish genre niches, this wavering, intermittently smart story of daring to ..
3.5
Brad Pitt invests Columbias behind the scenes baseball film Moneyball with a quiet sense of dignity and commitment, and while there is a whole lot of ..
Screen Daily
4.5
Its much more than another underdog story (although I dont have the stats to prove it).
Collider
1.5
Of course there wouldnt be a movie if the plan didnt work somewhat.
Collider
3.5
The movie does achieve something nearly impossible: Someone who doesnt even like the sport may care about Billy Beane and the 2002 Oakland Athletics.
The Hollywood Reporter
3.5
Yet even when the film is shagging flies, its an engaging pleasure to watch.
4.0
Nobody but baseball wonks remembers the rest.Moneyball is a fine, strong, adult movie, and its theme can easily apply to any number of other walks of ..
E Film Critic
5.0
Maybe not winning and how you play the game is a corny notion, but unless you want to believe in some higher power like luck, one cannot win if you ca ..
E Film Critic
2.5
Naysayers have been claiming for years that the Moneyball book wouldnt work as a movie. But ultimately, its the cinematic touches that keep this film ..
San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
You could take those out for originalitys sake, but your film will be less satisfying for it.
4.0
Brad Pitt anchors it with a performance that might be the best hes ever given as a leading man.
Cinema Blend
4.0
This extraordinary hybrid of a movie lives and breathes the game, yet its achievement is bigger than that.
Ny Daily News
4.0
Advertising Despite some uneven storytelling priorities, Moneyball is definitely an enjoyable film with some truly great performances, exciting moment ..
Screen Rant
3.8
Its just as hard not to be romantic about baseball movies.In that sense, Moneyball is exactly like moneyball infused with intelligence, amusing in its ..
The Globe And Mail
5.0
Its a classic trajectory, Capra esque and crowd pleasing, but Pitt adds layers of emotional depth, mixing moments of wild rage and frustration with a ..
Philly
3.0
It has some rah rah moments, but this is only nominally a sports movie, in style or tone.
Philly
4.5
But the beauty of Moneyball lies in being able to transcend itself to a universal drama of collective redemption.
4.5
But the beauty of Moneyball lies in being able to transcend itself to a universal drama of collective redemption.
4.0
So nothing really changed: over and over the wealthy and the powerful just absorb the best ideas as well as the best players and keep on winning.
Spirituality And Practice
4.4
But Moneyball takes a dry story about numbers and no name ballplayers and turns it into something funny, deep and illuminating.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.5
This crowd pleasing film is a baseball flick made for those who are not necessarily fans.
Sover
3.8
Moneyball illustrates what can happen when a non fiction book thats more about ideas and processes is translated into a feature film.
ReelViews
2.0
10 1 9 / 10 There have been a great number of exceptional baseball films, but very few films about baseball. Moneyball eschews home runs, cutesy playe ..
Blu Ray
4.4
These games are exciting, even if you remember the real ones from 9 years ago.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.5
The real protagonist of Moneyball, however, is Beane himself, played with great charisma by Brad Pitt.
Chicago Reader
4.4
The denouement is a bittersweet combination of undeniable accomplishment and further dissatisfaction.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
All of the characters around Beane have small roles but the caliber of the actors and quality of the writing makes for a fully dimensional ensemble.
3.0
All of the characters around Beane have small roles but the caliber of the actors and quality of the writing makes for a fully dimensional ensemble.
4.4
Baseball fans know this story, but Miller puts it all in fascinating context. This is a thinking persons baseball movie, a more complex version of the ..
Usa Today
2.5
But as strong as the actors are (and as compelling as the material can be), Moneyball is, in the end, undone by its excessively subdued atmosphere and ..
Reel Film Reviews
3.0
It is not easy to write a film about quiet courage and unassuming heroes like these, but this film rises to that challenge and hits one right out of t ..
Lariat
3.0
Though it does have some rousing sequences of on field action and suspense, its primarily a behind the scenes drama and a good one, maybe a better one ..
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
Michael Lewis 2003 nonfiction bestseller becomes at least the best Brad Pitt Jonah Hill baseball movie ever.
News Review
4.0
Hill, often cast as a motor mouthed wisecracker, gets to play somebody a little quiet and wise.
News Review
4.0
From what may seem, on the surface, to be dry subject matter, director Bennett Miller delivers a wordy but well paced and thrilling film, closer to co ..
Radio Times
4.0
Along with the fabulous script and director Bennett Miller keeping everything flowing at a brisk pace, they make the film a highly entertaining and sm ..
Screen It
4.4
Moneyball is one of the best and most viscerally exciting films of the year.
Rolling Stone
4.0
And the cast is excellent.Although a stronger sense of humour would have made them more loveable, the actors bring each character to life with detail ..
Shadows On The Wall
4.5
Moneyball makes visible the love of baseball as a game and a business, and as a mathematical system, the one devised by Bill James and a few other har ..
Pop Matters
2.5
Its not enough to describe Dead Man as simply an anti western; its an iconoclastic deconstruction of late 19th Century American values and mores, many ..
Pop Matters
3.0
Yanis Varoufakis treats with disdain the idea that economics is a real science its more like a contemporary form of religion, propped up by ruling eli ..
Pop Matters
4.0
Moneyball is a witty and captivating look at thinking outside the diamond.
The Wrap
4.4
Thats not the shower of sparks magic you normally see in a baseball movie, but a magic all its own.
News Day
3.0
provides ballast and a swaggering humor to a movie that, too often, strives to be The Social Network of baseball movies.
Cs Monitor
4.4
Moneyball brilliantly proves the old maxim that its not whether you win or lose, its how you play the game.
New York Post
4.0
Therein lies the strength and weakness of this too long but always amicable movie.
Film Journal International ..
4.0
Far too much time is spent on a winning streak the As embark upon.
Az Central
4.4
Slugging percentages and mid season trades are the stuff of this movies drama.
Boston
3.5
Hills nicely measured performance (a welcome departure from Judd Apatows gross out comedies) proves to be the most interesting aspect of the film.Pitt ..
Smh
5.0
Just as Beane changes the game, this film creates a new formula for the sports movie.
Star Tribune
4.5
I had been reduced to a slobbering gushy mess by the end of this gloriously entertaining movie even though Id spend the entirety of the running time b ..
3.0
It is a missed opportunity for a film that is as much about economic philosophy as it is about baseball philosophy.
Emanuellevy
5.0
In a classic essay in his 1954 book Gods Country and Mine, the French born but American by choice Jacques Barzun wrote: Whoever wants to know the hear ..
Guardian
3.0
It turns out to be a glorious triumph: a kind of blackjack card counting for baseball.But is it turning the sport he loves into a soulless game of num ..
Guardian
3.8
Director Bennett Miller (Capote), picking up after Steven Soderbergh left the production, handles the behind closed doors drama with a style that resp ..
Q Network
3.5
Many classic films about sport hinge on a climactic zero sum contestthe big gamethat leaves this viewer as indifferent as real life big games do.
Slate
4.0
MONEYBALL SYNOPSIS: Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), former would be superstar of baseball, is now the general manager of Oakland As team.Just before the 2002 ..
5.0
But its about far more than that, opening with a quote from Yankees great Mickey Mantle: Its unbelievable how much you dont know about a game youve be ..
Susang Ranger
4.4
Even if you dont know a fly ball from a snowball and couldnt care less how the great American pastime turned into the great American religion, this is ..
Observer
4.5
Yes.Will it impair your understanding or entertainment if you dont
Movies
4.0
It takes the prize as Graes Biggest Cinematic Surprise of the Year.
Movies
4.0
Moneyball is a feel good movie of the highest order, upbeat and positive, more of a really well done yet piece of cake puff profile than a great film.
Movies
4.0
His performance is a canny portrait of leadership part genius, part crazy guts, part dumb luck and worthy of moving Pitt up to the playoff round of Os ..
Time
4.4
Ultimately the film proper comes off like its poster: a copycat that superficially looks the same but lacks in inspiration.
Mr Brown Movies
5.0
The codas on the sentimental side.The scripts third act may frustrate sports movie fans conditioned to expect a certain kind of wow.
Chicago Tribune
3.5
The experience is a rewarding one, but it is rarely what one expects from a sports movie.
Bullz-Eye
5.0
Screen Talk, episode 207: Toronto and Venice have made major programming announcements, while Telluride remains shrouded in mystery (kind of).Still, O ..
Blogs Indie Wire
3.5
Pitt is dynamic and charming and very Robert Redford as the charismatic, determined Beane, and Hill makes a nice transition from raunchy comedies as t ..
Las Vegas Weekly
4.5
Compiled with more than 40 hours of interviews with Coach Wooden, learn about the man behind the coach.
Tony Medley
3.0
Hills beautifully understated performance allows for sublime levity at especially significant moments.
Coles Mithey
4.0
It may not feel quite like the classic baseball movie others have achieved, but its certainly pleasant enough to be enjoyable even by non sports fans.
3.0
Brad Pitt is excellent as Beane, and he manages to give a largely internal performance that still communicates volumes.
Hit Fix
4.4
Im not sure Ive ever seen a sports movie quite like this, and thats a major compliment.
Aisle Seat
3.8
And the biggest movie fans might rather see just a little more real drama.
Nj
3.5
But I can talk movies with the best of them.And a good sports movie can still be a good movie to me.
7M Pictures
5.0
But Moneyball is as different from Barry Levinsons fairy tale as it could possibly be.
Movies Tv Guide
4.5
Moneyball is a smart and often funny movie about money and baseball.
Maki At The Movies
4.0
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Mirror
3.5
Unfortunately, its extra innings length takes some spin off the ball.
Varia Gate
3.1
And it sure doesnt recognize the imperfection of Beane and Brands strategy.
Red Eye Chicago
2.0
Moneyball Who: With Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman.Directed by Bennett Miller.
Cleve Land
3.8
It takes a brave studio picture to recognize that theres sometimes more to the sports genre than the common trifles and cliches audiences have been pr ..
Dustin Put Man
4.5
...isnt really a baseball movie, or even a sports movie it feels more like a smart procedural from the 70s.
Ar Kansas Online
3.8
By forcing the familiar drama, Moneyball undervalues its own worth.
Larsen On Film
4.4
But something about the game is still compelling to our national imagination.
Christianity Today
5.0
A tender reminder that the heart sometimes still matters even if we now live in a technology driven, Digital Age where machines lead and humans follow ..
News Blaze
4.0
Indeed, its one of the most entertaining sports movies in ages, mostly because its not about winning the big game.
Hollywood And Fine
3.5
Is it a tragedy or a triumph that Beane passed on a vindicating multimillion dollar contract
Ib Times
4.5
Moneyball is simultaneously deeper and funnier than I thought it would be.
The Filmy Ap
3.0
He portrays Beane as confident guy with a great sense of humour.Equally impressive is Jonah Hill (Superbad) who proves he can make the transition from ..
The Film Pie
5.0
Brad Pitt is at the top of his own game as Beane. Cocky and often nonchalant, he is gnawed by doubts that he tries to cover by grabbing a snack or pit ..
Sandiego Reader
3.0
While Moneyball has a lot going for it, some of its assets can wind up working against it.If you dont have a head for numbers in the least and expect ..
Shockya
3.0
While making no effort to explain the terminology mathematical or baseball ical the script throws enough fastballs to keep even the most ignorant of u ..
Sky
5.0
It also offers a rare gift from Hollywood: a tender but honest portrait of a father and daughter relationship.
Mercury News
3.8
Despite being a tale of the front office, Moneyball also works as a tale of the haves vs. the have nots, and rarely panders to its audience, putting i ..
Scene Stealers
3.0
The result of all that shuffling is a classically acted, lushly photographed and laboriously paced examination of Beanes struggle to be taken seriousl ..
Or Lando Weekly
4.0
Its not for nothing that Moneyball starts with a quote from Yankees star Mickey Mantle: Its unbelievable how much you dont know about the game youve b ..
La Times
4.0
Millers direction is unassuming but inspired, bringing to life backroom dealings and lounge room conversations in a crisp, tempered and sometimes exhi ..
Streaming Quickflix
5.0
Never before, though, have statistics added up to such electrifying entertainment.
Wsj
2.5
Moneyball is an impelling triple. Its smart, agile, and effective. But its anti climactic. Director Bennett Miller and writers Sorkin and Zaillian cou ..
Tony Mack
4.5
Its therefore disappointing but unsurprising to find Moneyball being analogised to baseball staples like Bang The Drum Slowly and The Natural rather t ..
Concrete Play Ground
4.0
Shaikh Ayaz feels the good thing about Moneyball is that it doesnt play out like a sports film.Sometimes, its best not to go by the book, but to turn ..
Rediff
4.0
The movie doesnt quite come together, but its full of smart, cynical talk, and its very entertaining.
Ny Mag
4.0
An inspirational story that brings everyone to the handrail cheering and clapping.
Review Express
4.0
Moneyball is actually a real life tale, based on the book Moneyball:The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, and seems ripe for Hollywood.
Trespass Mag
5.0
The intelligent screenplay makes number crunching statistics interesting and entertaining.
Entertainment Spectrum
5.0
As head stat geek Brand, Hill gives a quiet yet solid performance.
Media Mikes
4.3
It makes a point about winning that is sophisticated and left me with a deep appreciation for anyone who tries to do something revolutionary and is af ..
Daily Film Fix
4.5
The humor consists of uniformly understated and impeccably timed deadpan throwaways thatmuch like the ballplayers talentscome in under the radar like ..
Theepoch Times
5.0
The fact that its an intriguing and truly entertaining drama is testament to the people involved.
Columbus Alive
2.0
Moreover, while it never strays far from its path, and more or less wastes Philip Seymour Hoffman in the limited role of As manager Art Howe, Moneybal ..
Nicks Chager
2.0
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh ..
New York Time Out
3.0
Though it may charm avid baseball fans, it will alienate everyone else whos just looking for a good movie to watch.
Reel Talk Online
4.5
Thankfully, its such an entertaining story that you shake off any raging ego involved and just enjoy.
The Scorecard Review
3.5
You dont want to try to look younger because youll look wrong..Remember when Nicole Kidman was roundly criticized for looking like a fashion model in ..
Film Festival Today
4.0
Because of Sorkins powerful script, the film becomes more than just a baseball story.
World Wng
4.0
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Richard Roeper
4.0
A bit forlorn, as befits a tale of solitude, but bracingly brainy.
Cine Passion
3.0
Moneyballs solid screenplay (by Oscar winners Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian) has a good joke at the expense of metaphors but I cant resist this one ..
The Film Experience
3.8
HollywoodNews.com: Joe Jonas is apparently not as squeaky clean as some might think or hope as he reportedly took the chance to smoke a little pot whi ..
Hollywood News
2.0
Moneyball ultimately leaves you with goose bumps all over, except not the good kind you get from a rousing crowd pleaser.
Critics Notebook
2.0
By Eleanor Ringel Cater I think I know whats wrong with Moneyball..Unlike what happens on screen Oakland As General Manager Billy Beane computerizes h ..
Saportare Port
4.0
Moneyball is a rare beast: a sports film that is actually a good film.
Flixist
3.5
Moneyball is a restrained drama with moments of unconventional excitement.
Cinema Autopsy
3.5
Moneyball, however, offers us an entertaining time and a fascinating story that moves you, one that is much better than one would expect.
Mid Day
2.0
Pitt proves his big league worth in this winning combination of thrilling drama and cynical dialogue.
Sa Current
4.4
But Beanes dogged persistence and Brands unwavering belief in the numeric approach eventually transform the team into a true contender as it rips off ..
Paloalto Online
3.0
But its far more a tale of a mans triumph over himself and his doubters.
Blog Oregonlive
4.5
For all the concentration on numbers, the film never loses sight of the fact that this is a game of people, and never gets lost in Brands spreadsheets ..
D Cist
3.5
It is surprising to get such an entertaining film that combines both.
Leepers Us
3.5
And that could just be me.In purely movie terms, Moneyball is solid.
Blogs Houston Press
4.0
Hill plays the role of the introvert geeky analyst to perfection.Moneyball is a must watch for all baseball fans.
Dna India
4.0
Okay. Lets get this right at the beginning. I liked Moneyball... But hear me out. Moneyball could have been great.
Cines Nark
3.0
But, just like England won the World Cup without Sir Alf Ramsay choosing the countrys best players, so Brand can see how a teams success is not the re ..
Birmingham Mail
4.0
But what makes the film really click is the hilarious odd couple chemistry between Pitt and the deadpan Jonah Hill, cast as the nerdy Yale economist h ..
Ma Cleans
4.0
The movie convincingly blends actual footage of 2002 games with scenes of actors playing real players, and the script does a crowd pleasing job of dra ..
American Profile
4.0
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Jo Reviews
3.5
But the biggest surprise of all is when the resultant winning streak threatens to re write the record book.
James Wegg Review
4.5
And with razor sharp wit and delivery, Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill are sensational together, hitting Moneyball clean and out of the park.
The Reel Deal
5.0
The underdog message in this story is clear but its never played for sentimental value.
Big Hollywood
4.0
Yet, here it is and Ill be darned if it isnt one of the best movies of 2011.
Movie Views
4.4
That the Oakland As fall just short of the big prize is bittersweet poetry in Moneyball, a smart, subtle and quotable tale thats happy to take that fa ..
Jackson Ville
4.4
But while youre waiting for something of substance to happen, there are plenty of worthwhile glimpses behind the scenes of a low budget baseball club ..
Sign On Sandiego
3.0
They drop in a lot of laughs along the way, but this is very much a drama.For all the talk of statistics and baseball, Moneyball isnt really about eit ..
Maki At The Movies Blogspo ..
1.5
The best film effort to date that can unite the generations until theres a cure. (
Bay Area Reporter
4.4
You dont have to a baseball to enjoy this film.Its pure, solid entertainment.
BlackFilm.com
3.0
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Ifc
3.0
A movie this intelligent about moviemaking couldnt possibly be this dumb about story, could it
Yahoo Movies
4.0
Now if only Zaillian and Sorkin could work their magic and make the actual game of baseball that exciting.
Wd Times
3.5
And it is not the only aspect of this movie that betrays its best impulses.
Truth Dig
3.5
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Ebert Presents
3.8
But I will say this the casting is strong, and the human drama has universal appeal.
7X7
4.0
This is a baseball story thats less about game winning hits and more about people willing to challenge the establishment.The challenge sounds somewhat ..
Windsor Star
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