If you grew up playing baseball in New England, this will be absolutely devastating.

Nothing really happens. The game unfolds more or less in real time, and as the day drags on, the players grow increasingly desperate to cling to this thing they won't stop bitching about. The field sucks, and they suck, and as everyone keeps reminding each other, the whole endeavor is completely pointless. But they still don't want it to end.

Baseball is a dumb sport. It's…

This is kind of a fascinating movie and it's really hard to tell how much of what makes it fascinating is intentional.

Garland's attempt to moralize about "violence" and "division" without actually engaging with either of those things or why they occur is very annoying, and refusing to explain any of the in-universe political dynamics seems like a marketing decision more than anything. His holier-than-thou enlightened centrism in interviews is standard Hollywood idiocy, but the movie does at least manage…