Steven Soderbergh's iPhone-Shot Basketball Movie High Flying Bird Is Like a Smarter, Better Ballers

by Erik Henriksen Netflix
Okay, wait, already, a correction: High Flying Bird isn't exactly a basketball movie. There's some basketball in it! But mostly, Steven Soderbergh's latest is about what one character calls the "game on top of a game"—the intense, complex, and rarely glimpsed machinations that determine how the multi-billion dollar sports industry rewards and exploits both its players and its fans.
It's some of the same territory that the Rock messes with on HBO's Ballers, but ins