I watched Molly's Game yesterday and today because of this thread and I found it to be a terrifically bad movie. It starts out fine, the poker stuff is interesting. But it is super fucking Sorkin-y and very overwritten, and that gets to be pretty grating at a certain point. It just turns into a slog by the end. This should have been a movie about poker and building a business, it's rare that a movie that spends its second half in a courtroom is any good. This doesn't pull it off at all. The magic scene where her dad condenses three years of therapy into three minutes.
This whole movie says the quiet part out loud with the non-stop voiceover, but this scene just screams the loud part even louder. Why is the movie so convinced that Molly is this righteous character? Did she write this thing herself (and then let Sorkin put it through his Sorkin machine which stopped working about a decade ago and now just Sorkinizes everything it touches into a bloated piece of garbage)? I don't believe a word of it. I was yelling at my TV by the end at Idris Elba to please just let her plead guilty. Encourage the judge to give her the death penalty for subjecting me to this terrible movie.Passably interesting for about an hour, but after two and a half hours, I'm ready to say that this is one of the worst movies I've seen in a while.