The list of five: Baseball's movies best films, according to CSM

March 21, 2008

According to Christian Science Monitor film critic Peter Rainer:

With the new baseball season almost upon us, this is a perfect time to recommend a few standout movies about the sport – not that there have been many. Some of the most acclaimed, like “Field of Dreams” and “The Natural,” are so overblown they might as well be about the Knights of the Round Table. Monitor critic Peter Rainer selects five that continue to give us pleasure.

The list includes (with my very brief commentary):

  • Pride of the Yankees (Agreed)
  • The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motors Kings (No)
  • Eight Men Out (Agreed)
  • Bull Durham (Agreed)
  • The Rookie (Agreed)

The reviewer points out that Field of Dreams is absent from his list. I don’t have any great problem with that, but there must be something better than Bingo, as good as that was. It can’t be a question of recently films, since Pride is in there.

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