Often telling and not showing, it's at its best when it slows down and successfully delves into the heads of its characters.

Rating: 7/10 (7 January 2018)

'Molly's Game (2017)' comes at you fast, snappy and self-assured, but often forgets that it isn't the book it is based upon, falling into the age old trap of telling and not showing at every opportunity; it feels less like a proper cinematic experience and more like someone explaining something to you for two-and-a-half hours, leading to an exhausting event that's at its most entertaining when it lets off the gas, zips the lips of the narrator (who sounds solely like Sorkin, let's be honest) and lets the characters converse in its slower sequences, which really do get under the skin of the situation and seem like they understand something fundamental about people who occasionally feel just as real as their real-life parallels. 7/10