In charge of a movie for the first time, Aaron Sorkin shows in the hard-driving legal thriller/personality profile “Molly’s Game” that, as a director, he’s a great screenwriter.
Sorkin tells the true story of Molly Bloom, played with incisive wit and fierce power by Jessica Chastain. Bloom had a promising career as a pro skier, an Olympic berth in her grasp, when she was injured in a freak accident on the moguls. She worked office jobs in Los Angeles after that, until one day her obnoxious boss (Jeremy Strong) recruited her to run his high-stakes poker game.
The game is where movie moguls, tech millionaires and other young rich men (it’s almost all men) gather to experience the high of betting large sums of money and outwitting their fellow young rich men.