Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game

[terry78]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/aaron-sorkin-make-directorial-debut-853102


Sorkin's directorial debut focusing on the real world Vegas woman who began hosting high stakes poker games that included the likes of Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Tobey Maguire.

 

[terry78]

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/684473-jessica-chastain-and-idris-elba-to-star-in-mollys-game

Chastain will play Molly and Elba will play her defense lawyer.

 

[MadVillainy]

Noice

 

[David H.]

I'm just happy Elba is doing something other than genre work.

 

[Kaleb]

 

[Fallen Angel]

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[terry78]

Consider it watched.

 

[dark_b]

Chastain looks to hot in this movie for me to be able focus on the acting and story.

googles the real Molly Bloom...
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[I Am The Knight]

Really, dark_b?

 

[MadVillainy]

I was really looking forward to this...but the trailer didn't move me at all

 

[terry78]

Now I'm ready for Chastain to play someone in the MCU or DCU. Poison Ivy, cough. Future Jean Grey, cough. I feel like if Marvel had the balls to make Inhumans a movie she would've been Medusa.

 

[DACrowe]

I believe she is Lilandra in Dark Phoenix...

So yes, hopefully she will get to be in a good superhero movie down the line somewhere.

 

[Mysteryman]

I believe she is Lilandra in Dark Phoenix...

So yes, hopefully she will get to be in a good superhero movie down the line somewhere.

I saw what you did there!

 

[Blitzkrieg]

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David Ehrlich
@davisehrlich

MOLLY'S GAME is *phenomenal,* an Erin Brockovich-level crowd destroyer. Also it's the first good poker movie ever. Wasn't sure we'd get one.

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Richard Lawson
@rilaws

Wow, MOLLY'S GAME is an absolute blast. Chastain and Elba are terrific and Sorkin avoids most of his worst impulses. Fun!!

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Scott Mantz
@Movie Mantz

MOLLY'S GAME: Exhilarating directorial debut by #AaronSorkin! Tour-de-force performance by #JessicaChastain! It's a female Goodfellas! #TIFF

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Jeff Sneider
@TheInSneider

After doing Diet Sorkin with MISS SLOANE, @Jes_Chastain does the real deal in MOLLY'S GAME & hits a home run, to put it in MONEYBALL terms

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Josh Horowitz
@joshuhorowitz

I can now talk about MOLLY'S GAME! One of my favorites of the year. Everyone in it is awesome @jes_chastain @idriselba Costner Cera and on

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Erik Davis
@ErikDavis

MOLLY'S GAME is SO good; powering at a frenetic pace w/ whip-smart dialogue & killer performances from @jes_chastain & Idris Elba
#TIFF17

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Baz Bamigboye
@Baz_Bam

.@jes_chastain & @idriselba are fabulous in #aaronsorkin 's scorching movie #Molly'sGame screened @TIFF_NET

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Anne Thompson
@akstanwyck

Kevin Costner & Jessica Chastain are explosive in Molly's Game. "I miss being on set," says Sorkin, who thanks Costner for his help.

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Mara Reinstein
@MaraReinstein

MOLLY'S GAME: classic Aaron Sorkin. And I mean that as highest compliment. Idris Elba speech got applause! Wow. #TIFF2017

 

[Blitzkrieg]

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Ashley Lee
@cashleelee

#MollysGame is gripping from the very first minute, as both a character portrait and a poker movie. already itching to watch it again. #TIFF

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Noel Murray
@NoelMu

MOLLY'S GAME is pretty much what you'd expect from a Sorkin poker/crime story: Brisk, wordy, Goodfellas riffs. (Also quite entertaining.)

 

[Blitzkrieg]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/mollys-game-review-1037071?utm_source=twitter

Quite aside from its considerable merit as a singular story neatly told, it’s a good bet that Molly’s Game packs more voiceover narration than any Hollywood feature ever made, which is to say that it’s practically papered with it wall-to-wall. Fortunately, the words have been written by the ever-eloquent Aaron Sorkin and are spoken with skill and speed by Jessica Chastain as a way of telling, in as much detail as a mainstream film could allow, the dense and complicated story of Hollywood and Wall Street high stakes poker den mother Molly Bloom. In his overdue directorial debut, Sorkin both entertains and makes you lean in to absorb every detail of this wild tale, which boasts a stellar cast to help tell it. Audiences of some sophistication, and especially denizens of Hollywood and upscale New York, will eat it up; the boonies not at all.

With Miss Sloane last year and Zero Dark Thirty before that, Chastain is definitely in a moment of playing very hard-edged women without personal lives (Miss Sloane at least had a secret gigolo), and the lack of either this or any female friends (there are only employees) makes one wonder if Molly has truly cut sex, romance and even friends out of her life; there’s no mention or glimpse of any of the above, which makes her feel like an incomplete character. All the same, Chastain roars through the performance with a force and take-no-prisoners attitude that keeps one rapt.

Elba is only the most important of the numerous male figures that pop here; other actors that make a strong impact in limited exposure include Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Jon Bass, Michael Kostroff and a truly hilarious Chris O’Dowd.

As a director, Sorkin keeps things rolling relentlessly and gets fine results from the actors down the line, so one has to imagine he’ll mostly continue to direct his own scripts from now on. The film looks sharp and a trio of editors keeps thing pacey despite the 140-minute running time.

http://variety.com/2017/film/festivals/mollys-game-review-jessica-chastain-1202552430/

Aaron Sorkin talks a good game, so it should come as no surprise that his directorial debut — surprisingly cinematic for someone so voluble, in which Jessica Chastain plays self-made gambling madam Molly Bloom, who built a multi-million-dollar poker empire that managed to attract a lot of unwanted attention (much of it on account of her memoir, “Molly’s Game”) — amounts to a series of mile-a-minute monologues, stacked back-to-back for the better part of 140 minutes. Still, for a writer accused of misogyny in the past, “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.

https://weliveentertainment.com/welivefilm/tiff-2017-mollys-game/

Molly’s Game is a sure bet for Oscar nominations this year. The writing, directing, and acting are the perfect mélange of drama, humor, and humility. Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut is a triumph and has solidified his place in Hollywood as one of the best writers of our time. Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba give electrifying performances and make Molly’s Game one of the best films of the Toronto Film Festival.

http://uproxx.com/movies/mollys-game-review-tiff/2/

Molly’s Game is a perfect story for Sorkin. There’s poker, the Russian mafia, the Italian mafia, celebrities, and sports. The only thing missing for Sorkin’s wheelhouse is President Bartlet. And at over two hours long, the film still feels tight and never fails to entertain.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Oh yeah. Sounds good

 

[Blitzkrieg]

 

[Hunter Rider]

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[Fallen Angel]

Much better trailer and STX have moved the film to Christmas Day limited release. Wide in January.

 

[SProsser]

Another flop for this thirsty woman.

 

[Shifty]

Stellar performance from Chastain, Elba gets to shine the half dozen times he's on screen and Sorkin's dialogue is still the best in the industry. Grips you from the first scene and doesn't stop until the end.

 

[Deck Rickard]

This movie looks good but all I can think when I see the trailer is that Chastain looks so hot she's going to set my laptop on fire.

 

[Rjones1325]

What I love about this the most is that its Jessica Chastain who is portraying Bloom. No, they don’t have the same facial similarities, but they have the equal skill of being badass bosses. Chastain has proved time and time again that she can hold down a movie by being strong, confident, fierce, controlling, and independent. Her screen presence just radiates whenever she is in a role such as this where she plays a woman who consistently tests the limits of her own power in intense situations. Just like her characters in “Miss Sloane” and “Zero Dark Thirty” she is knowledgeable about her about her craft as she uses her brain to her advantage. What I love about Bloom is that as much as she suckers people to play at her expense, she manages to be a decent being while men desire her because of her power.

While Jessica Chastain’s performance holds the film up, Aaron Sorkin’s grasp on this story drags the film all the way down. I’ve never seen a movie so self-indulgent with trying to sound smart in my entire life until this. My dad has one rule when he watches a movie, and that doesn’t have a very detailed screenplay when you have an exciting plot because he will come out saying, “There was too much talking. Everyone talked too much.” Granted I love films like that, but “Molly’s Game” has to be the first time I understood what he was talking about because this movie has waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much talking. As his first directorial debut Sorkin does a Stellar job getting great performances out of his cast, but in the writing department, the film is way too damn blabber. You have a film displayed on the screen but this a goddamn audiobook read by Jessica Chastain because the majority nearly every second of this two hour and twenty-minute movie is nothing but non-stop narration from beginning to end. It is more insufferable than Bella from “Twilight.”

I can take a two-hour movie based on a novel, but I’m sorry Aaron Sorkin nobody wants to see a film based on a book has non stop narration. We came for a movie, not a goddamn visual audiobook.There isn’t a moment of narration, you finally have air to breathe. When its there, you feel so suffocated because the way Sorkin has information thrown at the audience consistently. Watching this movie is the equivalent to talking to a guy at a party and allowing him to go tangent and then transitions that topic to something else that leads to another tangent and you won’t have a say in the conversation at all. Like to the extent that I nearly got a migraine.

If you like 142 min of Aaron Sorkin indulgent dialogue including constant narration of every intricate detail of the most unnecessary information presented to you then yeah "Molly's Game" okay.

FULL REVIEW HERE:http://www.rendyreviews.com/movies//mollys-game-review

 

[fancyarcher]

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