Terrifically entertaining.

Rating: 8/10 (20 January 2019)

All you need to know about "Molly's Game" is that it's an Aaron Sorkin picture, (he directed it as well), and you're hooked. Sorkin is the best writer of dialogue in the movies, just as he was once the best writer of dialogue on television and here he shows he's a damn good director too. The subject is poker and Sorkin's genius is that you don't have to know anything about poker to enjoy this massively entertaining film. Molly is Molly Bloom, a one-time skier, who ran one of America's highest stake poker games until she was arrested by the F.B.I. and she's played, terrifically, by Jessica Chastain, who just happens to be one of the best actresses working in movies today. She completely dominates the film, which is something considering just how good everyone else is, (there's a great cameo from Bill Camp). This is a brilliant movie, the kind of highly intelligent film you hardly ever see at the multiplex these days. See it.