Perfectly captures the vibes of an endless baseball game, of a low-key outdoor hangout, of a lovely fall day turning into a chilly night, of a hobby you use to escape the doldrums of your real life for a few hours. A little on the nose at times, but never in a grating way. Glad I never looked up what the title meant before hearing it explained in the movie. The theater I saw this at was echo-y in a…

Ya know, there's something to be said about finding a good formula and mostly sticking to it. That's been the magic of going through these movies, how they're essentially Mad Libs plots: inciting mass casualty incidents are premonition'ed, the premonitioner realizes that Death is coming for them in elaborately ugly ways and they try to fight it, interpersonal drama between the survivors complicates matters. And almost every time (4 is really the only exception) they succeed in making a grossly…

About as good as a movie about Trump made in 2024 could be, which is...surprisingly good. It correctly recognizes that Trump is not really a person that has changed on a psychological level over the last 40 years, so if you build a story around him it's best to just cover his transformation into the person he became and get out once he's reached that final hideous form (even then the movie does start to feel a little like a…