Highly engaging and interesting

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2018)

Molly Bloom was a talented skier with Olympic aspirations and potential. Now she has been arrested on a variety of federal charges, all related to her running high stakes poker games. This is how her life moved from the one point to the other.
Great drama, based on a true story and written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. Incredibly engaging and interesting: through jumping ahead to her arrest and then filling in the back story, Sorkin hooks you and reels you in. The end result is riveting viewing.
All this is aided and abetted by some very sharp, clever and snappy dialogue and some well-placed humour, Sorkin trademarks.
Also helping the quality of the film is an excellent performance by Jessica Chastain. She inhabits her role and contributes tremendously to the engagement and eyes-glued-to-screen factors (for a variety of reasons...). Solid support by Idris Elba as Charlie Jaffey, her attorney. The chemistry between the two of them is another positive contributing factor to the movie.