Eephus
Music Box Films | Release Date: March 7, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
84
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
22
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Washington PostTy BurrMar 13, 2025
Eephus belongs with the great baseball movies not because of any major league ambitions but because it understands what the game has meant and still means in small towns, among average people and weekend players. Read full review
91
IndieWireChristian ZilkoMay 21, 2024
The film’s only villain is the passage of time, and its protagonists are simply facing the unpleasant realization that their era is ending sooner than their lifespans. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 14, 2025
Maybe the most rewarding quality Eephus displays as a first-ballot hall of fame sports movie is the dedication of Lund and company to just being what they are: no-nonsense celebrants of something ephemeral yet enduring. Read full review
90
The AtlanticDavid SimsMar 14, 2025
Eephus is an elegy, but with just the barest hint of sentimentality—a shrugging send-off that simultaneously cares deeply about America’s pastime. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 9, 2025
Slowly but surely, you settle into its gentle rhythms, and before you know it, it feels like an entire lifetime has passed by. Read full review
90
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonMar 6, 2025
It dwells in some languid liminal space between hangout movie and elegy, a tribute to the community institutions that hold us together, that introduce us to one another and that, in an age of optimized life choices and disappearing public spaces, are slowly fading away. Read full review
90
The Daily BeastNick SchagerMar 6, 2025
Modest and moving, it’s a new sports-movie classic, as sneakily effective as the pitch which gives it its title. Read full review
90
VarietyJessica KiangMay 21, 2024
Its pearls of practical wisdom and jewels of melancholic wit make Eephus a gem, which is fitting, for a movie about a game played on a diamond. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesMar 20, 2025
Sharing some of the same talent behind last year’s microindie critic’s darling Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Eephus is suffused with a sincere love for baseball but not overburdened with holiness about the game. Read full review
88
The Travers TakePeter TraversDec 12, 2025
Nothing happens in Eephus and it’s still one of the best damn baseball movies ever made. Read full review
83
The Film StageJordan RaupMay 21, 2024
With a gentle yet rigorous vision, Eephus coalesces into a reflective study of nostalgia: both for a game that has evolved and for a certain kind of American social life that is dwindling as fast as the sun fades. Read full review
80
SlateDan KoisMar 7, 2025
It’s all so pleasantly familiar I might as well have been hanging out with these guys for years. Read full review
80
The New YorkerRichard BrodyMar 7, 2025
In presenting the game, Lund develops a passionately analytical aesthetic of baseball that offers a corrective to the way it’s usually depicted. His documentary-based method, in rejecting the patterned routines of television coverage, intensifies the drama of the sport itself. Read full review
80
ColliderCaleb HammondJun 12, 2024
Eephus delivers an experience that lingers, successfully capturing a deeper melancholy that can’t be shaken. Read full review
80
Screen DailyTim GriersonMay 21, 2024
Baseball is just a game, but Lund recognises why some need it so badly. On the diamond, these ageing men feel young again – if only for a few hours. Read full review
76
Paste MagazineBrianna ZiglerOct 2, 2024
The “Eephus” pitch is an apt characterization for the film that now shares its name, an odd, surprising story about a baseball game with seemingly little to no stakes, that continues on for long after it should’ve already ended. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 20, 2025
Places come; places go. Every human being deals with loss differently. “Eephus” acknowledges that, but it’s a sweet, sidewinding paradox of a sports movie: sentimental in a quietly unsentimental and offhandedly comic fashion. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonMar 13, 2025
Lund has crafted a good-natured hangout movie that tells the story of one final game at Soldiers Field, a New Hampshire-set diamond slated for demolition the following day. Read full review
75
The Associated PressJake CoyleMar 6, 2025
To call this a field of dreams would be pushing it. But it’s a lovely way to pass some time. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJake ColeJul 2, 2024
Carson Lund treats the power of a shared interest with profound, elegiac empathy. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerMay 21, 2024
Eephus isn’t exactly a baseball movie — it’s something closer to movie-baseball, where characters endlessly jostle back and forth under no real time constraints, watching the day slowly pass them by, simply out of love for the sport. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonMar 7, 2025
The pacing works referentially to its namesake and real-time ambition, but the characters aren’t quite interesting or engaging enough to sustain attention for the whole runtime, and the film’s crawl eventually wears on weary knees. Read full review
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