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Alynda Wheat, People: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...authentic and smart... works because it has a bona fide movie star in the lead. Pitt's performance is funny and assured." (Read the full review...) 158 words, 09/22/11 Richard Corliss, Time: EXCELLENT "...a solid, bustling social comedy at the 130-IQ level.... boasts the zinging, stinging repartee of grown men working at a kids' game and tired of being handed the prevailing line of bull." (Read the full review...) 1,036 words, 09/16/11 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: VERY GOOD (cg) "Pitt is at his charismatic best... Jonah Hill ultimately finds the quiet confidence in his character, and he and Pitt bounce off each other beautifully." (Read the full review...) 788 words, 09/22/11 Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...so riveting that even non-sports fans will get emotionally invested.... a rousing underdog story... Best of all, there's Pitt." (Read the full review...) 177 words, 09/22/11 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...supersmart and rousing... the dialogue is so light and sharp it just about cuts the air.... The film is a little long, with one too many endings, but it's a baseball drama about something novel and rich..." (Read the full review...) 766 words, 09/23/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Pitt nails every nuance... Hoffman is a joy to watch... Props to director Bennett Miller for making us feel the heat in finding value in things others miss." (Read the full review...) 779 words, 09/16/11 Claudia Puig, USA Today: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Pitt gives one of his most nuanced performances... This is a thinking person's baseball movie, a more complex version of the inspirational sports story." (Read the full review...) 397 words, 09/23/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...smart, intense and moving... I walked in knowing what the movie was about, but unprepared for its intelligence and depth." (Read the full review...) 786 words, 09/23/11 Kat Murphy, MSN Movies: EXCELLENT (cg) "Director Bennett Miller does right by the highs and lows of baseball... he's a dab hand at framing the angst and emptiness that settles over dark, depopulated slopes of bleachers..." (Read the full review...) 868 words, 09/20/11 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: VERY GOOD (cg) "There's a lot of fascinating information in 'Moneyball'... but the drama is fitful and at times inert." (Read the full review...) 927 words, 09/22/11
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...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." (Read the full review...) 1,284 words, 09/23/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "Bennett Miller -- a steady hand whose 2005's 'Capote' nabbed Hoffman an Oscar for Best Actor - is working in Howard Hawks territory, watching guys work independently while in unison." (Read the full review...) 435 words, 09/23/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...impressive and surprising.... Bennett Miller knows how to make stories involving without overstating them, and, like Billy Beane, he sees value in situations others might miss." (Read the full review...) 1,030 words, 09/23/11 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...probably the finest baseball movie since 'Bull Durham'..." (Read the full review...) 640 words, 09/23/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...honestly inspirational -- even though nobody knocks one into the lights, causing showers of sparks to blend in the night sky with the fireworks. This is not that film. It's better than that film." (Read the full review...) 891 words, 09/23/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...smart, clear-eyed and compelling..." (Read the full review...) 412 words, 09/23/11 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: GOOD "...an inside-baseball story that transcends inside baseball.... The movie doesn't quite come together, but it's full of smart, cynical talk, and it's very entertaining." (Read the full review...) 803 words, 09/19/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...smart, intense and moving... I walked in knowing what the movie was about, but unprepared for its intelligence and depth." (Read the full review...) 786 words, 09/23/11 Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "It really happened, it's really corny, and it's really great. Who needs Roy Hobbs? Hey, Dad? You wanna have a catch?" (Read the full review...) 810 words, 09/21/11 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Pitt and Hill make Beane and Brand seem like the year's most intriguing couple, bringing deep shades of humour and pathos to their characters..." (Read the full review...) 693 words, 09/23/11 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "...infused with intelligence, amusing in its attacks on false gods, but way easier to admire than to love." (Read the full review...) 811 words, 09/23/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...entertaining if undistinguished... it feels calculated and safe, as though someone had built a sports-movie version of Beane's stats-modelling software and let it run." (Read the full review...) 386 words, 09/22/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "It's difficult to review 'Moneyball' without using the term 'home run.' So let's just say that it rounds all the bases with grace, modesty and a surfeit of heart." (Read the full review...) 834 words, 09/23/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...it's one of the great accomplishments of the screenplay - from Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian - that the story works even if you have no idea what an ERA, or Sabermetrics, is." (Read the full review...) 568 words, 09/23/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a thinking person's baseball movie, and a baseball fan's thinking movie.... takes a dry story about numbers and no-name ballplayers and turns it into something funny, deep and illuminating." (Read the full review...) 590 words, 09/23/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "A scene with Pitt and Hill in sublime comic harmony as they coordinate rapid-fire player trades while juggling phones is as exhilarating as a triple play." (Read the full review...) 503 words, 09/23/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT (cg) "Bennett Miller wisely makes 'Moneyball' a kind of buddy movie... It's about loyalty: loyalty to an idea, loyalty to a partnership forged by desperation, loyalty to the values you believe in." (Read the full review...) 691 words, 09/23/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...hilarious and provocative... It's all talk but the best kind of baseball talk, funny and wise and alive to the pleasures of saying as much as possible in the fewest words." (Read the full review...) 1,035 words, 09/23/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: VERY GOOD (cg) "...well-written, sharply acted..." (Read the full review...) 554 words, 09/23/11 Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "Someone crammed 'Major League'-style sports cliches into a more nuanced story about baseball and progress - and then tried to fit a Brad Pitt star vehicle inside of that." (Read the full review...) 637 words, 09/23/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...thoroughly enjoyable... Pitt's as comfortable and casual as a broken-in baseball cap, striding confidently through the movie like the former golden-boy athlete Beane was." (Read the full review...) 472 words, 09/23/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "It's a sports story, yes, because without baseball there's no Beane. But it's far more a tale of a man's triumph over himself and his doubters. And you don't need math to make sense of that." (Read the full review...) 624 words, 09/23/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...one of the best baseball movies imaginable.... Like the national pastime, 'Moneyball' is pitched toward a savvy audience that applauds heart and hustle." (Read the full review...) 365 words, 09/23/11 Sean Daly, St. Petersburg Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a wildly entertaining enterprise... All-star screenwriters Aaron Sorkin ('The Social Network') and Steven Zaillian ('Schindler's List') get credit for a script that zips and zings..." (Read the full review...) 665 words, 09/22/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (cg) "...works for one reason only: The chemistry between Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill." (Read the full review...) 541 words, 09/23/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...resplendent, rousing... by far the best I've seen this year... the kind that only comes along once every few years: It's a perfect movie that doesn't strike a single false note." (Read the full review...) 896 words, 09/23/11
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "It really happened, it's really corny, and it's really great. Who needs Roy Hobbs? Hey, Dad? You wanna have a catch?" (Read the full review...) 810 words, 09/21/11 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: GOOD (cg) "...runs long and doesn't quite hit all the highs of a baseball movie you might want, but Brad Pitt anchors it with a performance that might be the best he's ever given as a leading man." (Read the full review...) 149 words, 09/08/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the classic Hollywood underdog tale, with a bit of buddy movie thrown in, plus a father/daughter subplot that feels tacked on." (Read the full review...) 737 words, 09/22/11 Noel Murray, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "I wish Pitt brought a little more swagger to his role, but when he and Jonah Hill are preaching the doctrine of OBP over 'fundamentals,' 'Moneyball' gives new meaning to the term 'inside baseball.' " (Read the full review...) 380 words, 09/14/11 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: OUTSTANDING (cg) "The marvel is that Bennett Miller still keeps you wondering how it will all turn out -- because even if you know, you don't really know, at least not in terms of where the story will take Beane." (Read the full review...) 1,236 words, 09/22/11 Bill Weber, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...true to Hollywood's tireless efforts to fit square-peg material into roundish genre niches, this wavering, intermittently smart story of daring to think differently flattens its narrative into formula." (Read the full review...) 816 words, 09/22/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...entertaining if undistinguished... it feels calculated and safe, as though someone had built a sports-movie version of Beane's stats-modelling software and let it run." (Read the full review...) 386 words, 09/22/11 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: EXCELLENT (cg) "How do you do more with less? 'Moneyball' suggests that staying in the game can be nearly as much of a victory as winning it." (Read the full review...) 594 words, 09/23/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: EXCELLENT (cg) "...gloriously entertaining... it's okay to cry tears of joy at the end. The romance of baseball remains intact." (Read the full review...) 408 words, 11/25/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...renews your belief in the power of movies.... just about every scene in the film crackles with intelligence, brittle humor and edgy conflict..." (Read the full review...) 1,257 words, 09/23/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...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." (Read the full review...) 1,284 words, 09/23/11 David Denby, New Yorker: VERY GOOD "...one of the most soulful of baseball movies... The man who gives the movie its soul as well as, at times, its drive and exuberant energy is Brad Pitt..." (Read the full review...) 1,168 words, 09/26/11 David Edelstein, NPR: GOOD "...sometimes loses the pulse, and at more than two hours it's a long haul. But Brad Pitt is so intensely likable that he keeps you absorbed." (Read the full review...) 662 words, 09/23/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...impressive and surprising.... Bennett Miller knows how to make stories involving without overstating them, and, like Billy Beane, he sees value in situations others might miss." (Read the full review...) 1,030 words, 09/23/11 Dana Stevens, Slate: EXCELLENT "...a sports movie for people who don't like sports movies.... in its own quiet, unspectacular way, this movie courses with life." (Read the full review...) 1,033 words, 09/22/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: EXCELLENT "...an example of what Hollywood does best.... a richly detailed and enjoyable American yarn, built around a warm and expansive performance by Pitt..." (Read the full review...) 1,234 words, 09/22/11
Peter Debruge, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "...defies the logic that auds need a rousing third-act championship to clinch their interest.... It is content to draw back the curtain and find drama in the dealings." (Read the full review...) 1,076 words, 09/08/11 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...tells a relatively simple story... a strong, rewarding effort to pull unusual personalities and a timeless story from a welter of 'Inside Baseball.' " (Read the full review...) 1,176 words, 09/08/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...impressive and surprising.... Bennett Miller knows how to make stories involving without overstating them, and, like Billy Beane, he sees value in situations others might miss." (Read the full review...) 1,030 words, 09/23/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: VERY GOOD (cg) "...sparkles only sporadically; it should have been more consistently witty and bright.... Pitt renders an immensely likable, but not entirely satisfying, performance." (Read the full review...) 866 words, 09/09/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...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." (Read the full review...) 1,284 words, 09/23/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...renews your belief in the power of movies.... just about every scene in the film crackles with intelligence, brittle humor and edgy conflict..." (Read the full review...) 1,257 words, 09/23/11
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