Essay: 'Any Given Sunday' Is A Blitz To The Senses (1999)

Men shout at each other in Oliver Stone's football opera

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Thank you, but I’d rather watch a movie about football than an actual football game. I’m not mocking the sport or its fans. But I prefer make-believe stories to the real world. In a movie, actors playing football players aren’t in danger of irreparable traumatic brain injuries.

Unfortunately, there aren’t that many good football movie…