Quick Moving and Engrossing

Rating: 7/10 (27 December 2017)

Aaron Sorkin may be the best writer working today, and Molly's Game is another example of this with wonderful dialogue making a 140 minute film fly by in what felt like an hour. Sorkin showed promise behind the camera as well in his directorial debut. The pacing and nonlinear storytelling were excellent and he was able to elicit some excellent performances from his cast. Jessica Chastain was fantastic as Molly Bloom, the brilliant student and world class skier who ended up running high stakes poker games for the rich and famous. She should get her third Oscar nomination for her work here. Idris Elba and Kevin Costner are also very good as her lawyer and father respectively.