Molly's Game

Movie Ranked #630 | 2018 - Biography, Drama
Molly Bloom, a beautiful young Olympic-class skier, ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons. Her players included Hollywood royalty, sports stars, business titans, and finally, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob. Her only ally was her criminal defense lawyer Charlie Jaffey, who learned that there was much more to Molly than the tabloids led us to believe.The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became ... More from IMDb
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Best two reviews:
1) Indiewire - The subtly profound ways in which this movie distorts the recent past makes it one of the most radically entertaining things its iconoclastic scribe has ever written. (Rating: 91) Read Full Review >
2) Variety - Molly’s Game delivers one of the screen’s great female parts — a dense, dynamic, compulsively entertaining affair, whose central role makes stunning use of Chastain’s stratospheric talent. (Rating: 90) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
13) The Guardian - Sorkin is spellbound by his subject, fascinated by the many details of her admittedly impressive life, but the magic he clearly feels fails to translate on screen. (Rating: 40) Read Full Review >
14) Slant Magazine - There's a blank space at the core of Molly's Game that the protagonist cannot fill, unable as she is to represent anything beyond her esoteric narrative of unorthodox self-actualization. (Rating: 38) Read Full Review >
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