Air – 8

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are having a great time, and the audience does too. It’s an inspirational story about Nike taking a chance on Michael Jordan as a rookie. There’s not much subtlety, but what’s wrong with that? We already know the ending and most of what happens along the way; our pleasure comes from how the story is told and the familiar actors who tell it: in addition to Damon and Affleck, there’s Justin Bateman, Viola Davis, Chris Messina, Chris Tucker and Matthew Maher, all wonderful. And, in a smart move, they leave Michael Jordan out of it.