Moneyball is a Brad Pitt movie based on Michael Lewis's book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, about the Oakland Athletics team and how its general manager Billy Beane used sabermetrics to change the team's fortunes. (Or not, but you need to watch the movie or know the story). Moneyball the movie was released in the US this weekend and with an Aaron Sorkin script (West Wing, The Social Network, and Sports Night, possibly the best fictional TV show about sport, but that's another debate) has mostly received rave reviews. The promotional material describes it as "one of the greatest baseball movies ever made", but is it one of the best five?

Here's my suggested top five all-time baseball films, but you may disagree. And I leave it to you to decide whether Moneyball should be on the list:

5) Major League

The classic sporting tale: underdogs come good. Before Charlie Sheen was in Two and a Half Men and went slightly crazy.

4) Bull Durham

Kevin Costner clearly loves baseball, but here he is also teamed with Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon at their finest.

3) The Odd Couple

You may consider this an unfair entry because baseball barely features. But as a movie it is Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau at their double act best and this moment in Felix and Oscar's relationship is genius:

2) The Natural

A tale of lost youth and redemption, The Natural oozes the smell of the ballpark and a feeling for the history of the game.

Can you spot the difference between the young Roy Hobbs

and the old?

1) Field of Dreams

OK, I'm a sucker for schmaltz. And Costner baseball movies (and if you insist that I take The Odd Couple out of this list, I will only add For Love Of The Game). Is there a dry eye in the house by the end?

Near miss: Cobb starring Tommy Lee Jones as the not-easy-to-love Hall Of Famer.

Missing by a mile: The Perfect Catch transfers Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, a tale of Arsenal's search for the English league title (and love), to the Boston Red Sox's bid to end the Curse of the Bambino, and loses its charm in the process.

Baseball movie that wasn't: For Love of the Game is given a twist of realism.

What the experts think: Salon.com asked a series of baseball writers and experts to make their choices.

And what of Moneyball: If you like baseball or Sorkin or Pitt films (and that must take in a wide array of moviegoers) then I recommend seeing it, if you haven't already. But this piece by Sports Illustrated puts the movie/book's theme into the context of what has happened to the game this millennium.

What is your top five?