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2011 · drama · sport · biography

Moneyball

Directed by Bennett Miller2h 14m2011
ElsewhereIMDb7.6504kRT94%Metacritic87TMDB7.36k
  • gentle
  • intimate
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Neutral, steady, gentle drama / sport, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

Our read · Moneyball (2011) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · sport · biography entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You love smart underdog sports stories about systems beating tradition.

ends upliftingit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 15attention 3/5feels its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightBaseball spreadsheets and front-office talk bore you tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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