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  Review by iana ★★★½ 29

  i mean, you’ve gotta give it to jessica chastain, she does a brilliant job of playing the same character she’s played in every movie since zero dark thirty.

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★ 13

  Sorry! I legally cannot hate any movie where Jessica Chastain and her incredible boobs are in my face, even if this is a messy piece of garbage! I’m signing off! 😘

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  Review by Evan ★★★★½ 2

  Google's definition of Heaven: a place regarded in various religions as the abode of God (or the gods) and the angels, and of the good after death, often traditionally depicted as being above the sky.

  My definition of Heaven: sitting in a theater listening to Jessica Chastain speak Sorkin dialogue for 140 minutes.

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  Review by ellie ✨ ★★★½ 1

  i'm big enough to admit that i'm a lesbian who spent most of this film staring at jessica chastain's boobs and knowing nothing about poker

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 10

  Every movie that Aaron Sorkin has written since the turn of the 21st Century has been about a real person. On the other hand, it might be more accurate to say that none of the movies that Aaron Sorkin has written since the turn of the 21st Century have been about a real person. Sure, “The Social Network” effectively “Rashomon”-ed the myth of Mark Zuckerberg, “Moneyball” immortalized Billy Bean, “Charlie Wilson’s War” reintroduced Americans to a semi-forgotten Congressman, and “Steve Jobs” made sure everyone knows that the guy who invented our phones was a pretty shitty dad, but those films weren’t interested in capturing their respective subjects so much as they were in selling them for spare parts. Sorkin doesn’t…

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★ 8

  Sorkin rips off Crucible AND Some Like It Hot, brags about it within the script, AND gets away with it, king

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★½ 1

  I want a whole spinoff movie about Cera as Tobey.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★ 5

  Wow, on a rewatch, this movie is actually.... very not good? Like, the Sorkin of it all is embarrassing in its formulaic-ness (people in Sorkin movies just LOVE to ramble about facts that have nothing to do with the conversation, or recite Webster's definitions like a fucking wedding speech) and his direction makes the movie feel like a 140 minute Adidas commercial.

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  Review by Marian ★★★★

  what happened in this movie? what was jessica chastain ever talking about? it doesn't matter because i don't care about anything except listening to jessica chastain and idris elba deliver monologues

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  Review by Lucy ★★½ 6

  AFI 2017: film #12

  what a colossal letdown. i had a feeling aaron sorkin wouldn’t be a natural talent at directing, but i had no idea he would throw together something this haphazard and lifeless and incoherent. it has a couple great sequences but it ends up equaling out to a big old corny mess. i intend on giving this another try when it officially comes out but right now it feels like a fucking shame

  BY THE WAY this was the closing night gala and miss jessica chastain HERSELF helped introduce it and had her own speech about aaron (which he didn’t deserve) BUT she really is my Favorite Actor and i was in the same room as her so i can die happy now. PEACE

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  Review by Q ★★★★★

  this is literally 2 hours and 20 minutes of jessica chastain making men look like fools and that...that is poetic cinema

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  Review by josh lewis ★ 6

  The directorial debut of screenwriting auteur Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, Moneyball), based on the best-selling tell-all of the Poker Princess Molly Bloom, is sort of like a Scorsese gangster picture just with none of the visual wit or interest in character psychology. Molly (Jessica Chastain) is a former Olympic athlete and genius, or whatever, who eventually came to organize the largest illegal poker game in American history, you see, but [freeze frame] you’re probably wondering how she got there. To be fair, it is a fascinating real story about the ease with which money, power and politics bleed into one another, unfortunately that’s not the story Sorkin is interested in—for him Molly is a gateway into white, upperclass feminism,…