There's a level of sincere humility to the film version of "Moneyball" that might shock those expecting to see it cloaked in arrogance.Next to the question about whether the material in Michael Lewis' book was viable for a movie in the first place, the most common shot I've seen taken at the idea of the film, which I saw a screening of Monday, is "what's the point?" Because Billy Beane's Oakland A's have never reached the World Series, much less won it, why would they worthy of the big screen?Putting aside the fact that this criteria would eliminate about a thousand works of art – "Rocky," "The Bad News Bears," "Major League," the entire history of "Peanuts" – note this well: The Billy Beane of "Moneyball" would share the same question. No one is more ac
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Published September 13, 2011 at 7:35 AM
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