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  Review by UltimateMovieRankings ★★★½

  I was a huge Boston Red Sox fan growing up. One of dad's favorite players was Dwight (he played the dad in Hall Pass) Evans...so he became my favorite player as well. Well Evans was a Red Sox from 1974-1989. During the 1986 World Series they were within 1 strike of winning the title for the first time in almost 70 years. They however decided to break my and many others' hearts instead...as the Mets came back and won the game and won the series.

  Game 6 stars Michael Keaton and Robert Downey, Jr and takes place before the game, during the game and after the game. Keaton is a playwrite...while Downey, Jr. is a critic. As we follow the…

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  Review by 🎞️📼Spencer💿📺 ★★★

  A sports movie from the perspective of a fan. Sports are full of drama and the fans eat up the good and the bad. Somewhere between those two, they can make an instant connection with someone they thought could never happen. 

  The cast of Game 6 is a murderous row when it comes to casting. Michael Keaton is an actor who I will always watch. He could be my favorite actor of all time but I think that's the kid in me talking. That's what happens when you grew up with the 89 Batman. I still think he should have won be an actor in The Founder. 

  Bebe Neuwirth is an actor I have rediscovered after rewatching Fraiser and Cheers.…

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  Review by Jake ★★★★ 3

  in the tank for this charming lo-fi take on the delillo magic. compelling paranoia, though certainly better realized by cronenberg later. ugly movie and the proto-airborne toxic event on their tiny budget has me itching to see how baumbach makes that work in white noise. how can you not be romantic about baseball?

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  Review by Andrew Jupin ★★★½

  I guess technically this is a re-watch, although the first time I tried to watch this was off a junk DVD screener and I completely greened out before they even got to RDJ.

  It's a film set in the world of New York theater that also walks and talks like a play, yet is totally cinematic in its own right. It's a small, contained story where nobody gets nuts, but you're still made dizzy as it moves along. It's a one-crazy-night story that starts a little before lunch, with a cast you want to see more of—the film runs only 87 minutes and you feel like you're only getting a few minutes with these people. More Griffin Dunne! More Catherine…

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  Review by noir1946 ★★★

  One of the most highly regarded contemporary American novelists, Don DeLillo examines language, technology, chaos, and violence in such novels as White Noise, Libra, and Underworld. Game 6, his only original screenplay, resembles DeLillo’s fiction through its treatment of the paranoia of urban America.

  Nicky Rogan (Michael Keaton) is a New York playwright with one big hit. He is hoping his new play will be a success but fears the reaction of critic Steven Schwimmer (Robert Downey, Jr.), known for his vicious reviews. Rogan’s life is further complicated by his separation from his wife, Lillian (Catherine O’Hara), the hostility of his daughter, Laurel (Ari Graynor), and the declining mental faculties of his father, Michael (Tom Aldredge). His play’s leading man…

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  Review by Joshua Andrews ★★½ 3

  A little over a month ago I started a complete watchtrough of David Cronenberg's full filmography. My feelings ranged from absolute love to meh for all of his films I had seen, thatwas until I popped in Cosmopolis. It had been a LONG time since I had seen something I despised as much as a did that film. 

  Cosmopolis was also my introduction to Don Delillo. After finishing the movie I started diving into its background more to try to understand how it could've possibly been made by a director I had grown to love. I started reading more about Delillo and his novels sounded really interesting. I decided to put a pause on movie watching and read Delillo's Underworld.…

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  Review by Jake Alda Coffey ★★

  I too would skip the opening day of my show to watch the Red Sox in the World Series.

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  Review by Evan “Kaizō Haya-shill” Pincus ★★★½

  “Another day of traffic. Traffic everywhere I look. Cars stop and go and stop again. People sit at the wheel, thinking their thoughts, day in, day out, red light, green light. Traffic on the major arteries, and traffic in the little veins. Cars, vans, taxis, trucks. 12 hours to game time, and there's something you can't bear to face. Is there a medication you can count on? Does it prevent history from happening? Limos, mopeds, bikes, and buses. A menace looming in your life, accident here, gridlock there, something washing slowly over you down the years, through the decades, birth, death, walk and don't walk. Store this medication at room temperature. Continue to take this medication even if you're feeling well.…

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  Review by Kurdt 7

  Pretty odd that Don DeLillo’s only screenwriting credit is for an obscure indie that barely got a release and nobody has really heard of. Revolving around Michael Keaton’s Red Sox-obsessed playwright, whose new play is opening the same night as Game 6 of the infamous 1986 World Series, it's familiar territory for DeLillo, who loves using baseball as connective tissue for wider introspection (Underworld, a top 5 all time novel for me, does this especially well), and the film also riffs on other themes he loves: superstition, paranoia, luck. It also features men who are inexorably tied to sports teams, but more specifically, the crushing losses the team has endured, as well as how they try to navigate the traditional…

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  Review by Pete Talbot ★★★ 2

  What I like about this, is that it totally illustrates the delusion I will have while watching a replay or highlights of a game where my team loses (that includes the Red Sox and games between 1918 and 2004) where I still have a hope that they will win despite the reality of hindsight. There’s a lot to like about this: score by Yo La Tengo, Robert Downey Jr and Michael Keaton playing off each other, the footage and dramatization of Game 6 of 1986, and the fact that you can say “I already saw Birdman in 2005 when it was called Game 6.”

  Seriously, Michael Keaton plays a playwrite this time on opening night of his comeback play on…

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  Review by lisa 👽 ★★

  i don’t think i understood what we were doing here 
  but peace n blessings to all involved

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  Review by Jesse Catherine Webber ★★★★★ 2

  This is my new favorite movie