This is what I'm talking about: a female-driven drama about the gun lobby starring Jessica Chastain in full flame.

| Nov 4, 2021

All we learn from Miss Sloane is what we already knew: D.C. is debased, but Hollywood is obtuse, and this country needs a better class of political fantasy.

| Feb 10, 2021

Miss Sloane has a narrative momentum that is hard to wholly resist. It's absurd. But it's never boring.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2017

Hard to root for but mesmerising to watch, Sloane is expertly portrayed by Chastain in this dialogue-heavy lobbyist thriller that should please fans of both actor and genre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2017

It's a towering, armour-plated performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2017

Elizabeth Sloane's a real piece of work - and so is this film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2017

The film's unwillingness to engage in any meaningful sense with the issues it purports to raise feels like an opportunity squandered.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 12, 2017

[A] slickly accomplished thriller about the lobbying industry in Washington.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2017

Lots is entertaining, not least the voracious Jessica Chastain as a she-shark coolly gliding her way through these murky waters.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2017

Miss Sloane has the roar of a good political satire/thriller, Merlin-engined for velocity and plot panache.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2017

The real pleasure of the film comes from Chastain's wonderfully acerbic and uninhibited performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2017

Miss Sloane raises important issues but loses focus.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 10, 2017

Elizabeth Sloane is a character so archetypal, so prescriptive, that you imagine she wasn't born in normal human fashion but rather created in a lab from leftover vials of testosterone and male tears.

| Dec 22, 2016

Now, with Miss Sloane, Chastain brings the heat. She carries this film on her shoulders; she elevates even the most flawed stories.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 16, 2016

Miss Sloane tells a story that feels like it was ripped right out of yesterday's headlines, [and] that coupled with Chastain's magnificence helping make the film a gripping spellbinder worth seeking out.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2016

The creators of Miss Sloane probably never imagined that their cynical film would seem downright quaint. Life comes at you fast.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 9, 2016

Following a pair of sojourns to the adorable Marigold Hotel, John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) takes a giant step forward with this perfectly timed tale of how to draw and quarter a lobbyist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 9, 2016

Miss Sloane is a powerfully conceived thriller with something dead at its centre: there is no reason a female protagonist must be good or well-behaved, but she must at least be interesting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 9, 2016

We don't need to like her, but Chastain makes us understand and even sympathize with her, ruthless and cunning though she may be. It's remarkable work.

| Original Score: B | Dec 9, 2016

A solid Washington thriller with some telling (and accurate) details, moral dilemmas, and plot twists that keep you guessing until the last ten minutes.

| Original Score: B | Dec 8, 2016