Moneyball Movie Reviews

Sometimes, it's best not to go by the book, but to turn convention on its head. That is what Billy Beane (Brad Pitt [ Images ]) does in this film set in the world of that quintessentially American sport, baseball. Beane is general manager of a team that is underfunded and loses its best players to other teams. But the film is not about records or statistics or even baseball; it's about this one man who wishes to "shake things up" and produce a winning team

The hungry heart of Moneyball, a movie about baseball in the digital age, is a beautiful hard case named Billy Beane. Coiled yet cool, Billy has the liquid physical grace and bright eyes of a predator. He was built to win. Even his name, with its short syllabic bursts, sounds ready for ESPN exultations. That he’s played by Brad Pitt giving the quintessential Brad Pitt performance just seals the deal. It didn’t turn out that way, and in 2001 this high school star

Moneyball is one of those films that could easily be mistaken for a generic feel-good sports movie that inevitably ends with your team winning in the final seconds of the game. Yet despite Mychael Danna's music that creates lumps in throats, and one cliched speech by a coach, the film is extremely well-acted and engaging. And more importantly, you don't even have to be a baseball fan or know anything about the game to enjoy it. Based on Michael Lewis' book

The best sports films are the ones that can appeal to people who don't like sports. 'Moneyball', based on a true story, stars Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the manager of the failing Oakland Athletics baseball team, who is unable to afford star players on his limited financial resources. Beane befriends Jonah Hill's character, Peter Brand, a just-out-of-college stats-wiz who's devised a system of rating players using mathematics. It allows Beane and Brand to build a team

Moneyball review: 3/5 stars. What’s Good: The entertaining script; the performances. What’s Bad: Hardly anythi...