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  Review by Ayo Edebiri ★★★★

  Ok I’m gonna be honest, this started off with Susan Sarandon talking about baseball over gospel vocalisations. Hopes were low. 
  But this movie was so charming and cute and I loved these performances. Susan Sarandon is electric and has chemistry with everyone and brings so much intelligence and heart to a character that might not necessarily exude that on paper.  Tim Robbins is a genius at playing The Fool. Kevin Costner is hot. These are all things I enjoy in a movie!
  I watched this on a plane (shout out the Delta movie selection btw…..) and I fast forwarded through all of the sex scenes because my neighbor kept looking at my screen and I got nervous ❤️ Do we think this made the problem better or worse?
  I think I want a baseball movie revival? Or at the very least another movie with a character named “Ebby Calvin ‘Nuke’ LaLoosh”
  That’s all from me!

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  Review by Ethan Colburn ★★★½ 3

  Susan Sarandon is never not in charge. One of my favorite genres now is movies where you think she plays a supporting role but really dictates exactly what happens by everyone’s accounts. Lovely lady.

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  Review by kevintporter ★★★★

  "it's a movie about baseball players..."

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  "...having sex with susan sarandon"

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  four stars!

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  Review by Michael Loren ★★★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  "Well I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days."

  Possibly the best speech ever given in a film, and it happens to be long-winded and raunchy. Good God I love Kevin Costner in this movie, and I really don't like him in…

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★

  watched this after The Idol finale to remember when sex was cool. obviously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she’s an adjunct teaching English. this is exactly what being in your 30s is like btw

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  Review by Laura Saladino ★★★½

  "You did not get lured. Women do not get lured. They are too strong and powerful for that."

  Susan Sarandon wearing high heels at the ballpark, suggesting that men fist fighting is latent homosexuality, and putting on "La Vie en Rose" before hooking up with Tim Robbins....what a queen.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 4

  Has all the relaxed wit and charm of the best romcoms of this era that I went in expecting (the off-kilter love triangle at its center and focus on a specific professional/subcultural milieu certainly puts it up there with Broadcast News, anyway) but the bizarre blend of open, casual sexiness with cosmic sports movie poetry/spiritualism was truly unique and surprising. Sarandon is beautiful and mesmerizing as some sort of mix between Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate and a religious baseball Shaman, herself caught between the macho slapstick antics of the vaguely Star is Born-esque relationship between Costner's aging, lonely, intelligent minor league lifer on his way down and Robbins' cocky, inexperienced hotshot on his way up that he's been asked…

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  Review by Willow Maclay 2

  God gave Tim Robbins a thunder bolt for an arm and Susan Sarandon a magical baseball player improving pussy. He made Kevin Costner a regular guy. We lost something when they stopped making movies like this

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  Review by Vikram Murthi ★★★★

  I can forgive the “I believe” speech, which always makes my eyes roll (you believe in softcore pornography?) and sticks out like a sore thumb as the most writerly moment in an extremely written movie, and I can forgive the two very brief scenes of Costner and Sarandon dancing like the dorkiest suburban parents at the block party, mostly because every other frame is near-perfect. Definitely the greatest baseball movie, but even awarding it that title feels equivalent to a second-place trophy. It’s one of the great American films in the waning years of the 20th Century, one whose roots are firmly in Classical Hollywood (no wonder Wilder loved it) and whose light screwball energy masks a moving portrait of…

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  Review by eddie ★★★★ 1

  Kevin Costner saying things like "i believe in the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball," and "i never told him to stay out of your bed, i told him that a player on a streak has to respect the streak" is pure love of the game. Ron Shelton, the athletic romantic, understands that the high horse speechifying side of sports can be just as cinematic as The Big Game, or a clown dancing under the lights at a minor league game.

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  Review by Carlos Andreu ★★

  every character in this movie is super horny and that's it basically

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  Review by nora ★★★★ 1

  i just think the world would be a net better place if more baseball movies were this unapologetically horny