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At one point, Allen gives you several versions of the same climactic scene (it varies according to the historian), and the effect of all those farcical possibilities is elating: a Rashomon -like sequence where you don't give a damn what actually happened.
The movie builds to a couple of climactic science fairs, but they're presented almost as afterthoughts, and in moments of tragedy one's tears are quietly coaxed instead of jerked.
Dissenters call the film "snappy and ingratiating" ( Slate 's David Edelstein) and "completely enjoyable and, at its climactic moments, thrilling" ( New York magazine's David Denby).
Traditionalists complain it will dilute ancient rivalries, screw up the year-to-year continuity of statistics, obliterate the quaint differences between the two leagues (principally, the designated-hitter rule), and spoil the climactic, virgin mystique of the World Series, which, until now, was the leagues' only intercourse.
Adrian is smarmily insulated from his past; Ricky, whom Annie and Hannah stumble on in the film's climactic scene, has let his past eat him alive.