Liberals Hate Families

You’d think I could only like a movie about baseball if it wasn’t actually about baseball, and perhaps Moneyball is that movie. It’s about the inner workings of baseball. How the teams that you know and love are assembled and dismantled, the influences, intentions, and origins of decisions. It’s what Aaron Sorkin does best: taking a well known spectacle and exposing the reality of it. It’s not a film that’s anti-baseball or even anti-establishment, but it shows you how things really work. The acting, writing, and directing are all top notch. It’s a smart movie that has the sort of rhythm and intelligence that makes potentially boring subject matter riveting.