Excellent Movie, Oscar Worthy

Rating: 9/10 (11 April 2018)

Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) was an Olympic class skier, who didn't finish an important run due to injury, then we see her 12-years later running high stakes poker games for Hollywood elites, sports stars, business captains and unknown to her: the Russian mob. Then the FBI arrests Molly and she needs a lawyer and gets Charley Jaffey (Idris Elba).
This is some good true story and the real winners in here are the dialogues between Charley and Molly, who together form an unbeatable team with their quick dialogues and comebacks. It's like they made up the script as they went along. That's how good the dialogues and these two actors were. Kudos. Doesn't happen often.
The scenes bounce back and forth between the present and earlier times in Molly's life and the way it was done was seemless when Molly thinks about an earlier time, we see what she sees. Kudos.
Molly narrates and sets up many of the scenes we see and it's not important that we understand all the gambling lingo and it's just fun to go with it and most of all we see Molly is in complete control of the situations. Charley wants Molly to give up some hard drives to the FBI that give names of famous people whose lives will be destroyed if they became known. Molly won't do it and Charley says she will go to jail. Oh, oh.
Notables: Kevin Costner as Larry Bloom, Molly's father; Michael Cera as Player X; Bill Camp as Harlan Eustice, a hard luck gambler; and Graham Greene as Judge Foxman.
No Oscar nominations for Chastain or Elba, but they should have been nominated as they truly gave Oscar worthy performances. This movie could have been nominated for Best Picture too. Didn't happen.
Normally, with true stories there are statements at the end of the movie telling what happened to the main character(s). There were no statements this time. (Well, her story did become a movie) (9/10)
Violence: Yes.
Sex: No.
Nudity: No.
Humor: Some good lines are heard.
Language: A couple F-bombs in the beginning only.
Rating: A