Money, analytics and whatever’s on ESPN can sometimes cloud what sports is to most people: A refuge. “Eephus,” in that way, is a change-up of a baseball movie, an elegiac ode to the humbler ...

An eephus pitch is a low-speed, high-arcing lob thrown with three fingers like a curveball. This trick-pitch’s power is in its slowness, which confuses batters. “You get bored watching it ...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Music Box Films releases “Eephus” ...

This makes “Eephus” sound like pure corn, which it isn’t. Its wit beams on and off a little, but it’s nice and dry. The script, co-written by Michael Basta, Nate Fisher and director Lund ...

Director Carson Lund's film follows the last game played by two adult Sunday league baseball teams on a field slated for demolition in Douglas, Massachusetts. "It’s baseball as life in all its ...

“Eephus” uses baseball as a metaphor for the passage of time, but it’s also fixated on the minutiae of the sport itself. Set in the 1990s, the film covers the final recreational league game ...

All this to say: “Eephus,” the feature directorial debut from Carson Lund, is a movie made just for me, and maybe for you as well. It’s set in the small town of Douglas, Mass., about half an ...

In ‘Eephus,’ a day of baseball comes to life in all its loose-limbed, adult-league glory Jeff Saint Dic, David Torres Jr., Theodore Bouloukos, Ethan Ward, John R. Smith Jr. and Brendan ...

In baseball, an eephus pitch is the ultimate fake-out. Thrown incredibly slowly, typically with a high, floating arc, its success is largely predicated on a batter being too surprised to swing.

Richard Brody reviews Carson Lund’s directorial début, “Eephus” (named for an unusual baseball pitch), an ensemble piece about two amateur teams playing their last game at a beloved field.

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Music Box Films releases “Eephus” in New York at IFC Center on Friday, March 7 with more national ...

“Eephus,” in that way, is a change-up of a baseball movie, an elegiac ode to the humbler weekend warriors who are driven by nothing but genuine affection for the game.