Brad Pitt stars in the real-life tale of Major League Baseball general manager Billy Beane, who built up a winning team despite a decreased budget thanks to his sly use of statistical data to calculate the best -- and cheapest -- players for his roster.
Reviews
The Sunday Times
Cosmo Landesman
"Interestingly, Moneyball represents a significant shift in the way our culture views men such as Beane and Brand. Not too long ago, these two would have been the villains of the film — vilified as number-crunchers, the suits who are all statistics and no soul.
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27/11/2011
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The Daily Telegraph
Robbie Collin
"[Pitt blends] a smidgen of his Fight Club braggadocio with an ever-so-slightly crumpled warmth and sense of human fallibility. Although he’s playing a real person, it is – thank goodness – a performance, not an impersonation. Audiences have been gazing into Pitt’s crinkled grey-blue eyes for years, but now there’s something quite special going on behind them."
24/11/2011
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The Times
Kate Muir
"It’s all alpha-male stuff, from the sweaty, swearing locker rooms to the cut-throat way Beane ends a phone call. Naturally, the viewer responds like any alpha male, getting positively tearful when someone scores a home run. Reader, I wiped my eyes, and I’d only just found out that a baseball team has 25 players, nine on the pitch. "
25/11/2011
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Total Film
Matthew Leyland
"[Miller] strikes a balance rare among films about baseball: never suggesting it’s only a game, but always remembering it’s also a business."
16/11/2011
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The Observer
Philip French
"It's a film about baseball that demands little knowledge of the game.
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27/11/2011
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The Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"Impressive and surprising."
23/09/2011
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Empire Magazine
Olly Richards
"A chest-swelling story about second chances and flipping a finger up (even a giant foam one) to The Man. "
21/11/2011
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Screen
Mark Adams
"While there is a whole lot of subtle drama and elegantly staged moments the film is too one-tone to grip and never quite as thoughtful as it appears on the surface."
09/09/2011
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
"It has this strange, beady-eyed sense of its own intelligent importance, created by co-screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin – heavy-hitters both."
24/11/2011
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The Evening Standard
Charlotte O'Sullivan
"A sporadically entertaining mess. Moneyball is unsure about what (if any) risks it should take. It means well but, in the final analysis, it doesn't mean much."
25/11/2011
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The Daily Mail
Chris Tookey
"The first two-thirds of the screenplay badly needed cutting by at least half an hour, and the ending is an anti-climax ... [though] it’s certainly the classiest baseball film since Bull Durham in 1988."
25/11/2011
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The New Yorker
David Denby
"Some of this is enjoyable but of minor interest, and there’s an inescapable oddity at the center of Moneyball: Beane and Brand are possessed by a passion that is almost sacred in its strength, yet it’s devoted not to character or courage but to hard, cold numbers, an irony that the moviemakers could have made more of."
03/10/2011
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The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
"Miller ... takes all this seemingly dry, dusty, inside-baseball stuff and turns it into the kind of all-too-rare pleasurable Hollywood diversion that gives you a contact high. "
22/09/2011
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Time Out
Tom Huddleston
"An example of smarter-than-average Hollywood fare – and a sly dig at modern sporting politics. "
21/11/2011
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The Financial Times
Nigel Andrews
"My theory is that Moneyball, now landing in the UK, is Hollywood’s revenge on Britain for sending them Brian Clough and The Damned United."
25/11/2011
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