Miss Sloane
EuropaCorp USA | Release Date: November 25, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
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Generally favorable reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
24
Mixed:
16
Negative:
1
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88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperDec 8, 2016
Director John Madden (“Shakespeare in Love,” the “Exotic Marigold Hotel” movies) expertly juggles the various subplots while never losing his main focus, which is to showcase Jessica Chastain’s nearly infinite palette of acting shades. Read full review
83
The PlaylistNick SchagerNov 22, 2016
Jessica Chastain is a great actress, but with Miss Sloane, she also proves that she’s a great movie star. Read full review
80
CineVueJoe WalshMay 25, 2017
While Chastain, and the surrounding cast, drive the narrative there is no denying that as time runs on it begins to unravel frustratingly, reaching an unsatisfying conclusion. Yet, Chastain's performance is one that lingers in the mind. Read full review
80
The TelegraphTim RobeyMay 22, 2017
It’s addictive fantasy, satisfyingly snappy even in its absurdity, and something no Chastain fan can afford to miss. Read full review
80
Total FilmNeil SmithMay 8, 2017
Chastain stalks the corridors of power with steely aplomb in Madden’s coolly compelling incursion into House of Cards territory. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangNov 25, 2016
See this smart, showboating movie now, before its simmering sense of justice begins to feel like a thing of the past. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyNov 12, 2016
So intriguing are the driven, smart and compromised characters, and so infinite are the dramatic possibilities at the intersection of big business and politics, that a vastly expanded small-screen take built around these characters, and others like them, would be quite welcome.. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliDec 9, 2016
As a dramatic thriller, it does what it needs to do to keep the audience involved and interested, even if some of its most theatrical tricks and twists are more the products of a writer’s invention than actual Washington D.C. activities. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonDec 8, 2016
If you’ve been wondering how Washington really works, this film is required viewing. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleDec 8, 2016
Miss Sloane is one of the year’s handful of great actress vehicles, and Chastain takes this role by the throat, smashes it against the wall about ten times and then devours it while it’s still quivering. You want to see star acting on a grand scale? Miss Sloane is the movie to see. Read full review
75
Washington PostPat PaduaDec 8, 2016
This taut political thriller, set amid the soulless office architecture of K Street, has an ostensibly liberal bent, but its antiheroine’s Machiavellian methods turn the film’s subject away from its cause, portraying lobbyists and politicians in a dark light. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittNov 24, 2016
The intelligent, timely and twisty thriller Miss Sloane introduces an antiheroine feared by both Republicans and Democrats. Jessica Chastain is all hellfire and high heels as powerful Washington lobbyist Elizabeth Sloane. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattNov 23, 2016
Chastain fully commits to her boss-bitch persona, even if we only obliquely learn why she might have chosen such a lonely, mercenary life. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversNov 23, 2016
Sloane is a nasty piece of work. Yet Chastain draws us in, making us see what the character keeps inside by the sheer force of her fireball performance. There are times when Miss Sloane plays like a pilot for a TV series. No knock on that. If Chastain stars, I'm in. Read full review
70
TimeStephanie ZacharekNov 23, 2016
Storytelling efficiency is one of Miss Sloane’s most effective calling cards — that, and Chastain. Read full review
70
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Nov 22, 2016
Jessica Chastain plays Sloane, and she's the kind of Washington power-player who'd scare off half the cast of "Scandal" — towering heels, pulled-back hair and a taste for the kill. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeNov 12, 2016
Miss Sloane is a talky, tense political thriller, full of verbal sparring and fiery monologues, undone by a really dumb ending. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t smart for most of its running time. Read full review
67
ConsequenceRandall ColburnDec 7, 2016
Miss Sloane is a smart, thorough film about a rare subject that is also as breathless, broad, and crowd-pleasing as your standard Grisham thriller. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichNov 12, 2016
In a movie that likens passing legislation to pulling off a massive heist, eventually departing from reality altogether in a series of late-game twists so intricate they would make Danny Ocean blush, the sheer velocity of Chastain’s performance holds it all together. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 15, 2016
Miss Sloane is a Capital Hill tale in the “State of Play/House of Cards” mold, a melodramatic thriller more realistic than “Scandal,” slightly less riveting than “Scandal.” Read full review
63
Boston GlobePeter KeoughDec 8, 2016
It answers most questions by the end, except the most important one: Is the devil in Miss Sloane, or is Miss Sloane the devil? Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanDec 7, 2016
The portrait of Elizabeth Sloane grabs your interest, partly due to the presence of Jessica Chastain in the title role. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyNov 25, 2016
The film is not so much tone-deaf as old-fashioned, emerging from a more innocent time (say, three weeks ago) when "politics as usual" actually had some meaning. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaNov 17, 2016
The screenplay's enigmatic nature holds one's interest throughout, even as the film veers into pat moralism. Read full review
60
EmpireAnna SmithMay 15, 2017
Hard to root for but mesmerising to watch, Sloane is expertly portrayed by Chastain in this dialogue-heavy lobbyist thriller that should please fans of both actor and genre. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzDec 8, 2016
It’s fun enough in places, outrageous (in mostly a good way) in others. Ultimately, however, the plot falters enough that it’s more like a two-hour audition for Great Actress. Chastain passes with flying colors, even if the movie doesn’t. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoNov 30, 2016
Rarely is a performance so strong that it’s able to carry an entire production, but – thankfully for John Madden – Chastain wills Miss Sloane into relevance through nothing but sophistication, spunk and champion grit. Read full review
60
Time OutCath ClarkeNov 23, 2016
Chastain is a wonder. Her character could give Cersei Lannister in "Game of Thrones" lessons in cunning and wreaking vengeance. Read full review
60
Village VoiceAbbey BenderNov 22, 2016
Miss Sloane, with all its Capitol Hill gloss, sometimes feels too much like a primetime political television drama. Read full review
60
The GuardianNigel M SmithNov 12, 2016
Chastain single handedly prevents it all from veering off the rails by dominating Miss Sloane with her forceful presence. She grounds her heroine to ensure you’re with her. Read full review
60
Screen DailyTim GriersonNov 12, 2016
Miss Sloane is a shallow but lively thriller which becomes undermined by its makers’ misplaced belief in the profundity of their topical tale. Read full review
58
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallDec 26, 2016
Chastain plows through this tangled scenario with an icy ferocity that's entertaining. You get the feeling that Miss Sloane would work better as a streaming or cable series, allowing more time to explore characters and issues, giving actors more room for dense dialogue. Maybe come up with a better way out of that corner. Read full review
55
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeNov 12, 2016
Rather than take the time to let us really get to know and understand its complicated title character, the movie instead goes for cheap, gotcha plotting that undermines the entire project. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorDec 8, 2016
Miss Sloane is a powerfully conceived thriller with something dead at its centre: there is no reason a female protagonist must be good or well-behaved, but she must at least be interesting. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniDec 8, 2016
A disquieting and ultimately disappointing political thriller. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesDec 7, 2016
The film is less successful at exploring the chinks in her armor – the stuff that makes her human, and a person of interest. Chastain is great – she’s always great, right? – and the brittle braininess she radiates is the film’s crowning seduction. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen HoldenNov 24, 2016
Partly because Miss Sloane is more a character study than a coherent political drama, it fumbles the issue it purports to address, and it eventually runs aground in a preposterous ending. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerNov 23, 2016
The main problem is a dialogue-heavy script by first-time screenwriter Jonathan Perera that mistakes quantity of verbiage for quality. Read full review
50
The Film StageDaniel SchindelNov 16, 2016
It looks and feels less like a film and more like a feature-length pilot for a new TV series which happens to have a stacked cast. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottDec 8, 2016
Visually and tonally, Miss Sloane -- like Chastain's one-note performance, in which she does little but bark and glower -- is slick but soulless, a film that takes itself far too seriously and misjudges how smart it really is. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithDec 25, 2016
Heavy-handed message movies don’t come more harrumphing than “Miss Sloane,” a clunky dramatization of the gun-control argument liberals still don’t understand is being conducted solely among themselves. Read full review
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