STX Entertainment | Release Date: December 25, 2017
7.4
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Generally favorable reviews based on 252 Ratings
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dc127May 22, 2018
I don't know how this movie is getting such high reviews. It is well acted but . . . well it is a terrible story. Molly Bloom is a self centered, terrible human being. She profits off of gambling addicts, does drugs, and is a criminal. HerI don't know how this movie is getting such high reviews. It is well acted but . . . well it is a terrible story. Molly Bloom is a self centered, terrible human being. She profits off of gambling addicts, does drugs, and is a criminal. Her whole redeeming point is that she doesn't beat up people that owe her money. That is it. I going to guess that most of the positive reviews are only because Jessica Chastain is the lead . Kevin Costner also has a memorable turn in the film as Bloom's dad. Idris Elba also does a bang up job. Still, neither my wife or I cared what happened to Molly. Chastain has an issue that she comes off smarmy and as a know it all in every scene. I wanted her to go to jail. Expand
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MercurioJan 7, 2018
I'm a huge Aaron Sorkin fan (ever since The West Wing), but because this movie has an utterly unlikable protagonist it's difficult to care about anything that happens to her -- no matter how clever the banter between characters. Even moreI'm a huge Aaron Sorkin fan (ever since The West Wing), but because this movie has an utterly unlikable protagonist it's difficult to care about anything that happens to her -- no matter how clever the banter between characters. Even more problematic: there's a narrator's voice-over that continues for the entirety of the movie, literally telling us everything we're seeing (at least for the first hour and forty minutes; I walked out with 20 minutes left). Expand
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