Follows the Boston Red Sox' Tim Wakefield and the New York Mets' R.A. Dickey - the only two major league pitchers who use the unpredictable knuckleball - during the 2011 season.
There's plenty of real drama in this movie without Stern and Sundberg having to pump it up.
– Noel Murray,
AV Club,
20 Sep 2012
fresh:
A first-rate sports documentary in any season.
– Neil Genzlinger,
New York Times,
20 Sep 2012
fresh:
With elements of "Moneyball" and a twist of the narrative arm, this look at how Tim Wakefield and R.A. Dickey became knuckleball experts is a real kick.
– Joe Neumaier,
New York Daily News,
20 Sep 2012
fresh:
The sweet achievement of "Knuckleball!," Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg's documentary about this quixotic pitch and the quixotic men who throw it, is that it gives both sides equal play.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
20 Sep 2012
rotten:
Nonfans, however, are about to find out exactly what the phrase inside baseball means.