or Moneyball

and honestly cause Chastain and Idris are such beautiful humans and great actors, they made his usually mechanical dialogue flow

over all in terms of direction it could've looked better and moved more dynamically. very little was done with the stakes of the poker games though

Yet, I was invested from jump.

thematically, a very odd thing occurs: the white girl can do no wrong narrative or the manic pixie white girl movie, where instead of her being the protagonist's flawed desire, she is the narrator of her own world. also the Freudian subtext with her psychologist pop, F O H

lastly, Jessica Chastain is a stunning fucn women. Like gah damn she bad