Modern fable hits a home run
Reviewed this week: Moneyball directed by Bennett Miller. Rating: 4/5. Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey directed by Lelia Doolan. Rating: 3/5.
Reviewed: Moneyball directed by Bennett Miller
Nationwide, cert PG
**Rating:** 4/5
I know nothing at all about baseball and even less about statistics, but I was enthralled by Bennett Miller's stirring adaptation of Michael Lewis's 2003 non-fiction book **Moneyball**, a film about how America's national sport was transformed, not by a talented new player or an inspirational manager, but by a guy with a spreadsheet.
Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, a retired ...