![]() ![]() ![]() Reminiscent of the variety of ways Adam McKay presented complicated information in “ The Big Short,” Sorkin plays with images and graphics, grabbing us with high energy from the very start. ![]() Sorkin’s film is a bit overlong but it mostly moves briskly, especially off the top, as Molly informs us in a lengthy voiceover about her past as an Olympic-caliber skier and the freak accident that drastically changed her life trajectory. Despite her cynical, detached demeanor, she’s a force of nature in a blowout and a bandage dress-impossible to stop watching and listening to as she narrates giant chunks of “Molly’s Game” in wryly humorous fashion. As she’s proven throughout her career-particularly in “ Zero Dark Thirty” and “ Miss Sloane”-Chastain has the presence, smarts and dexterity to take this kind of tricky material and make it sing. And in Jessica Chastain, Sorkin has found the perfect match for his densely witty repartee. ![]()
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