Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can't play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He's got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favorite team is making an underdog run at the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbor Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; the problem is he has no idea why. As Hank attempts to evade their ever-tightening grip, he's got to use all his hustle to stay alive long enough to find out....

Who would have guessed the most entertaining release of the season wouldn’t be about superheroes or dinosaurs, but a sexily scuzzy action thriller about a washed-up baseball player stumbling through New York’s underworld?
Giovanni Lago
Next Best Picture

The most-fun movie Darren Aronofsky’s ever made.
Sonny Bunch
The Bulwark