Moneyball
Synopsis
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his successful attempt to assemble a contending baseball club on a shoestring budget by employing a savvy computer enabled analysis to draft players.
Our take
Winner of the prestigious Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film, this little-seen nonfiction film is a naturalistic, semi-autobiographical and above all, sincere work of docufiction from a new talent of the genre. A coming-of-age story set in the French countryside, pleasing and gorgeous to watch.
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Awards & Festivals
Academy Awards
2012 | 6 nominations including: Best Motion Picture of the Year
Village Voice Film Poll
2011 | 2 nominations including: Best Actor
Indiewire Critics' Poll
2011 | 3rd place: Best Screenplay
Critics reviews
Miller’s deliberate dampening of the usual rah-rah genre expectations play like a visceral embodiment of the film’s essential ambivalence: Like Beane, he aims for emotional detachment but occasionally can’t help but exude a low-key romanticism about the sport and the people involved.
Kenji Fujishima
July 06, 2016
Clearly, everybody involved felt that it would be dishonest to ignore such a notable real-world event [the 20-game winning streak] (and no doubt people would have bitched up a storm if they had), but it’s a shame that the A’s didn’t happen to win 20 of 21 with the single loss right in the middle, as that would have freed the movie (which would surely still exist) to pursue more relevant and less generically crowd-pleasing angles in the home stretch.
Mike D'Angelo
February 10, 2012
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