Jessica Chastain's performance is this movie's ace in the hole

Rating: 5/10 (28 December 2018)

Molly's Game has the witty, fast-paced dialogue you'd expect from anything written by Aaron Sorkin. However, Sorkin's directorial debut starts losing steam near the end. He should have tightened it up a bit. Nevertheless, Jessica Chastain's performance is this movie's ace in the hole. She makes you believe that she could pull off an operation like this. This film isn't a flop, but I wasn't all in while watching it, either.