Moneyball – 7.5
By treating baseball players as commodities – to be coldly evaluated, drafted, traded and released – Moneyball has made the players I watch nightly on television seem more human than I have regarded them before. I can’t, however, share in the general adulation accorded Brad Pitt. He floats above the locker room more movie star than general manager, every facial expression worthy of a poster (where his name, in fact, takes precedence over the movie title). Even the choice of his lieutenant, an excellent Jonah Hill, serves to distinguish Pitt as a race apart. Still, the fact that the film’s drama relies on the proof of a theorem rather than winning the ‘big game’ sets Moneyball apart from other sports movies and scores points, or should I say ‘runs,’ for originality.
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