Hollywood's Top Writer Gives Us Brilliance from Start to Finish

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2018)

I was completely surprised by this movie, in a very good way. I generally don't like movies about gambling, a pastime I despise. And I really hate bio-pics, at least generally. What I like in movies, what I like in this movie, are people I like. I liked Molly, her lawyer, and every single person who sat down to play cards at her table. Even the very minor players had a fun story to tell, like the guy who brought an original Monet painting as his collateral for the buy-in.
The film's structure is a terrific blend of getting the audience up to speed on the events of the story mixed with narrating everything that led up to the pot boiling over.