2017 · drama · biography · crime
Molly's Game
Directed by Aaron Sorkin2h 21m2017
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
Our read: Molly's Game (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · biography · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- twisty
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