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- 2017
- R
- STX Entertainment
- 2 h 20 m
- 2017
- R
- STX Entertainment
- 2 h 20 m
Summary Molly's Game is the true story of Molly Bloom a beautiful, young, Olympic-class skier who 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, unbek...
Directed By: Aaron Sorkin
Written By: Molly Bloom, Aaron Sorkin
- 2017
- R
- STX Entertainment
- 2 h 20 m
- 2017
- R
- STX Entertainment
- 2 h 20 m
Molly's Game
71
7.4
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Summary Molly's Game is the true story of Molly Bloom a beautiful, young, Olympic-class skier who 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, unbek...
Directed By: Aaron Sorkin
Written By: Molly Bloom, Aaron Sorkin
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 46 Critic Reviews
71
76% Positive
35 Reviews
35 Reviews
22% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 46 Critic Reviews
71
76% Positive
35 Reviews
35 Reviews
22% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Few actors on the planet can shift gears as effortlessly as Chastain, who perfectly captures Molly’s chameleon-like ability to adapt to situations and to rationalize her worst behavior.
Bloom’s an extraordinary character, expertly played, and we gradually move from admiring her chutzpah to genuinely caring what happens to her.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 256 User Ratings
7.4
82% Positive
209 Ratings
209 Ratings
14% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
5% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 256 User Ratings
7.4
82% Positive
209 Ratings
209 Ratings
14% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
5% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
Excellent movie. Thoroughly enjoyed it. The movie was 2.5 hours long but the story was intriguing throughout the entire time which is rare in long movies. Great story loved it.
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Molly’s Game isn’t the deepest movie you’ll see, but it’s both finely tuned and big-hearted. It’s a rouser.
When Sorkin does go off on side episodes, they’re for the greater good. Molly’s dealings with a nihilistic and smarmy A-list movie star (Michael Cera), a gambler (Bill Camp) who loses his cool, and the drunk Irishman (Chris O‘Dowd) responsible for pulling the Russian mafia into her games actually boost the overall narrative rather than cannibalize it.
When Molly’s Game is good, it’s very, very good. There are dazzling moments throughout, and it’s clear that Sorkin is having a blast. Much of the film is downright intoxicating, just like the world Molly Bloom found herself in.
Elba is one of those actors who radiates his own force field even if he’s sitting still, or just tying his shoe. His no-nonsense performance helps to eradicate some of Sorkin’s nonsense.
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.
First movie of the year! I’d been waiting for Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut for a while, and damn did he deliver. As always, his dialogue burns of the screen. As always Jessica Chastain is excellent, and lends this story a ton of dramatic weight. This is a ton of fun, and my favorite movie of the year so far.
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Molly's game is interesting as a movie because it does two things:
- it is conscious of its book adaptation throughout the movie
- it tells a convincing story of a supposed truthful one.
The pros:
- half decent acting (from celebrity actors)
- screenplay acceptible
- lots of interesting timeline shifting (flashbacks mostly)
- story is relatively good
The cons:
- most characters feel like stereotypes
- for some reason, half the characters will speak monotonely and with long paragraphs, affects the acting a lot.
- *incoming* fake psychiatric session scene
- story/marketing said it was a true story, details are exaggerated during movie duration to help the movie as a drama
- over-dramatisation, parts where events happen without explanation just to set a dramatic tone
Overall, it's a good movie. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who enjoys cinematography, or acton flicks, or even political flicks, but it's an acceptible drama. This is definitely a movie intended for girls. There's very little in terms of stakes, there's a lot of weird "I can do it and men can't" scenes and scenes of "I'm hot and attractive so I'm irresistable to men" type stuff. Good feminist movie, feels overall like a "girl in a man's world" movie. So if you like that kind of stuff, this is not a half-bad version of that.
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Meet Molly. An unlikable, self absorbed victim of an insecure father that forced her into being an anti-social elitist that was struck a bad hand while competing in the olympics. When she closes the door on her father, she starts **** poker games. And then stuff goes wrong, she faces prosecution and suddenly a sense of pride and morality is injected into the movie that comes out of nowhere...
So, Molly was pushed from an early age to be 'a winner' by her psychotic father. Even though this gives her acute scoliosis, it doesn't stop him from pushing her even further. Apparently, her brothers became succesfull through this treatment, and she is the black sheep of the family. I'm getting sick to my stomach just from putting this into sentences.
Two hours into the movie it is suddenly revealed that her dad was ashamed of cheating on molly's mother, and that changed molly into something that hates the idea of a normal relationship. This pretty much drops out of nowhere as the first two hours are really just about Molly **** poker matches, and shows how rich this makes her. That, and Jessica Chastain had to do the entire movie with her breasts being pushed up to distract the audience from this weirdly written script.
It seems like the movie doesn't know what it wants to be. Does it want to show how cool it is to get succesfull and rich in **** poker, or does it want to be some drama about psychotic personalities? Calling it entertaining would go way too far for me. It's an average movie. I give it a 6/10.
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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. 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.
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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 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).
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Production Company
STX Entertainment,
Huayi Brothers Pictures,
The Mark Gordon Company,
Pascal Pictures,
Entertainment One,
Sierra / Affinity
Release Date Dec 25, 2017
Duration 2 h 20 m
Rating R
Tagline Deal with her.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Hawaii Film Critics Society
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
