Molly's Game

The good and the bad of Aaron Sorkin are on full display in his directorial debut, Molly's Game.

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“Molly’s Game” is ultimately the story of a young woman who achieved the dizzying highs of success, and the overwhelming lows of failure, as both an athlete and entrepreneur.

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Criticisms notwithstanding, Molly’s Game is undeniably enjoyable.

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Jessica Chastain stars as Molly Bloom, who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game, in Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut.

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Aaron Sorkin makes his directorial debut with this well-realized poker drama that's not as dramatic as it could be.

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Aaron Sorkin, Jessica Chastain are a winning pair in poker tale 'Molly's Game'

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Sorkin’s film is a bit overlong but it mostly moves briskly, especially off the top, as Molly informs us in a lengthy voiceover about her past as an Olympic-caliber skier and the freak accident that drastically changed her life trajectory.

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“Molly’s Game,” the new high-stakes poker movie, is a pretty safe bet.

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Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut gives "poker queen" Molly Bloom the screwball-drama treatment she deserves.

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The best of Molly’s Game, however, is more on the “Social Network” level, edgy and rhythmic. This is Sorkin’s feature directorial debut, and I’m happy to say it doesn’t look that way.

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Swift, stylish, tough-minded and sharp-tongued, this engaging fact-based drama, about a young woman who at one point ran the richest poker game in the world, is worth recommending if only to see its star, Jessica Chastain, at the top of her nerviest, most icily self-controlled game.

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Smart, engaging, and full of great performances, sometimes telling is the way to go.

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Jessica Chastain takes the pot in Aaron Sorkin’s poker drama “Molly’s Game”

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Aaron Sorkin’s indelible wit and naturally fervent performances from Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba prevent Molly’s Game from drawing dead.

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Former competitive skier Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) moves to Los Angeles in search of a fresh start, and finds a career running a high-stakes celebrity poker game. Initially she has wild success, but as she gets deeper, the temptation to cross a line into illegality grows.

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Aaron Sorkin sets up a fascinating character with the real-life gambling maven Molly Bloom, only to undo her with simplistic overexplanation.

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It is hard not to wonder how this movie might have turned out if Mr. Sorkin had decided his protagonist was as much a weasel as the one he wrote for “The Social Network,” another story of an American striver. It’s hard not to wonder, too, how this story might play if its protagonist wasn’t a woman who, as this movie sees it, needed so much male defending.

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The Oscar-winning screenwriter makes his directorial debut with the long and rambling tale of ‘poker princess’ Molly Bloom, brought half-heartedly to life by a miscast Jessica Chastain.

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Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut takes a seat at the high-stakes poker table.

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Aaron Sorkin deep dives into self-parody from the opening moments of his directorial debut, Molly’s Game.

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