Moneyball Reviews
The trick of Moneyball is that while this analytics revolution has not made the sport any more enjoyable... watching the coup unfold via nonstop workplace arguments is a blast.
| Jan 22, 2025
If The Big Short distilled Lewis’ prose to its most entertaining essence without sacrificing his scope and The Blind Side just favored the human interest portion of his story, then Moneyball fell somewhere in between.
| Jan 4, 2025
How can you not be romantic about baseball and this film? A superb script by Aaron Sorkin, great performances by Pitt and Hill, and solid direction by Miller result in a phenomenal sports drama of how the sport evolved. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 1, 2024
“Moneyball” is expertly constructed, so it should come as no surprise that it was penned by two of the best screenwriters of the last thirty years: Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin.
| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 7, 2023
Above all, Moneybag is a sports film variant traversed by the constant quantification of a financial crisis. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 13, 2023
Even if you don’t care much for baseball or sports in general, traces of a very human underdog drama come through to render the experience a universally consumable one.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 8, 2023
... this is a different kind of underdog sports movie. Percentages and balance sheets and backroom trades are bigger drama than home runs and double plays. The film’s triumph is in turning that sports geek detail into the stuff that wins are made of.
| Dec 3, 2022
[Bennet Miller] builds a story that at times seems like a documentary, the dramatic tension isn't in the baseball scenes but in a protagonist whose sole ambition is to change the way things are done around him. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 23, 2022
The biographical baseball drama subverts the underdog formula by presenting digital pragmatism as the unlikely hero.
| Jul 20, 2022
Brad Pitt's finest performance so far.
| Original Score: 5/5 | May 3, 2022
This is an engrossing look into the life of a man who is willing to do everything he can to be successful, even if it means approaching a radical method of carrying out business.
| Feb 11, 2022
Stepping out of the formula, the smoothly-written business side of this film trumps the game and players on the field in fascinating detail.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 14, 2021
Throw in the great Philip Seymour Hoffman and what you get is a deeply empathetic sports drama that's more about people than it is about the number crunching.
| Oct 27, 2020
Awards season is just getting ready to get started, but director Bennett Miller has served up 2011's first real contender.
| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 17, 2020
It's an underdog story, but told through a different perspective.
| Original Score: B | Aug 5, 2020
A smart, fact-based sports story that you don't have to be a sports fan to enjoy.
| Original Score: A- | Jul 11, 2020
'Moneyball' is a sports drama that benefits in the intense moments from Bennett Miller's advantageous direction, powerful performances and cunning dialogue. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 24, 2020
What is happening in Oakland, it defies everything we know about baseball...
| Jun 10, 2020
In utilizing the old school vs. new school approach, Moneyball manages to become one of the best baseball movies ever.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 2, 2020
Who knew this baseball geek-fest would turn out to be so exciting or have me rooting like I was in the stands myself?
| Jul 26, 2019