Seattle Times December 8, 2016 Chastain, whose brittle Elizabeth never seems to exhale, let alone relax, reveals almost nothing of her character’s heart – and yet keep...
Hard to root for but mesmerising to watch, Sloane is expertly portrayed by Chastain in this dialogue-heavy lobbyist thriller that should please fan...
Madden’s film offers up a banal truism – money has a corrupting influence on politics – as if it were some great dramatic discovery...
Toronto Star December 8, 2016 This is Chastain’s movie, as the title implies. She’s never less than riveting …
Miss Sloane has the roar of a good political satire/thriller, Merlin-engined for velocity and plot panache.
RogerEbert.com November 25, 2016 The film is not so much tone-deaf as old-fashioned, emerging from a more innocent time (say, three weeks ago) when politics as usual actually...
MovieFreak.com December 9, 2016 Miss Sloane tells a story that feels like it was ripped right out of yesterday’s headlines, [and] that coupled with Chastain’s mag...
This is what I’m talking about: a female-driven drama about the gun lobby starring Jessica Chastain in full flame.
Chastain’s performance is brilliant… Had the movie around her lived up to that, she might very well be walking off with a gold statue in ...
Chastain fully commits to her boss-bitch persona, even if we only obliquely learn why she might have chosen such a lonely, mercenary life.
Slant Magazine November 17, 2016 The screenplay’s enigmatic nature holds one’s interest throughout, even as the film veers into pat moralism.
New York Post December 7, 2016 Heavy-handed message movies don’t come more harrumphing than "Miss Sloane," a clunky dramatization of the gun-control argument liberals...
Village Voice November 22, 2016 Madden … keeps his camera in constant motion, though it seems no camera can move fast enough for Chastain’s frantic, sure to be awards-hyped...
Charting the journey of a ruthless lobbyist who develops a conscience, "Miss Sloane" is a shallow but lively thriller which becomes...
The creators of Miss Sloane probably never imagined that their cynical film would seem downright quaint. Life comes at you fast.
Chastain’s showstopping performance elevates "Miss Sloane" above typical genre fare, though it lands a one-two punch in managing to...
USA Today November 24, 2016 Chastain is scary, chilly, yet extremely likable as the hard-charging insider. In meetings and on the job, she has no filter, though as the movie p...
ReelViews December 8, 2016 As a dramatic thriller, it does what it needs to do to keep the audience involved and interested, even if some of its most theatrical tricks a...
The Guardian May 14, 2017 It’s a towering, armour-plated performance.
theplaylist.net November 22, 2016 Headlining the sort of pulse-pounding adult thriller that studios rarely produce anymore, Jessica Chastain is a one-woman force of nature as a domi...
Globe and Mail December 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...
Bitch Media February 10, 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 poli...
Hollywood Reporter November 12, 2016 Smart and solid, with a smashing Chastain.
New York Times November 24, 2016 Partly because "Miss Sloane" is more a character study than a coherent political drama, it fumbles the issue it purports to address, and...
TIME Magazine November 25, 2016 Storytelling efficiency is one of Miss Sloane’s most effective calling cards-that, and Chastain.
The Atlantic December 22, 2016 Elizabeth Sloane is a character so archetypal, so prescriptive, that you imagine she wasn’t born in normal human fashion but rather crea...
Black Girl Nerds December 16, 2016 Now, with Miss Sloane, Chastain brings the heat. She carries this film on her shoulders; she elevates even the most flawed stories.
Toronto Sun December 8, 2016 The reason to see Miss Sloane is Jessica Chastain, an actor apparently constitutionally incapable of giving a bad performance.
The film’s unwillingness to engage in any meaningful sense with the issues it purports to raise feels like an opportunity squandered.
Newark Star-Ledger November 21, 2016 The whole thing feels a little like a season of "Scandal" cut down to two hours – but with all the double-dealing and triple-crosses left...
[A] slickly accomplished thriller about the lobbying industry in Washington.
Movie Mom December 8, 2016 A solid Washington thriller with some telling (and accurate) details, moral dilemmas, and plot twists that keep you guessing until the last ten min...
Los Angeles Times November 24, 2016 This is, in the end, not a sociopolitical tract but a movie, and one that unabashedly embraces the scintillating pleasures supplied in abundan...
Boston Globe December 8, 2016 Chastain puts on the persona like it’s a superhero costume. It is an awkward fit. Madden’s stagy direction doesn’t help … no...
Lots is entertaining, not least the voracious Jessica Chastain as a she-shark coolly gliding her way through these murky waters.
Chicago Reader December 8, 2016 The movie shares with other mainstream political dramas an easy notion of Washington as a hopeless cesspool of sellouts, paybacks, and heinous...
indieWire November 13, 2016 Jessica Chastain is bulletproof in a frothy soap opera about the other women in Washington.
TheWrap November 11, 2016 If this were a TV pilot, we could at least sit back and wait for the character’s vulnerabilities and backstories to emerge, but in the s...
AV Club November 23, 2016 Why does Chastain still feel vaguely miscast, even as she commands the screen?
Rolling Stone November 25, 2016 Chastain draws us in, making us see what her lobbyist character keeps inside by the sheer force of her fireball performance.
The Guardian November 12, 2016 Chastain single handedly prevents it all from veering off the rails by dominating Miss Sloane with her forceful presence. She grounds her heroine t...
Chastain takes this role by the throat, smashes it against the wall about ten times and then devours it while it’s still quivering.
Miss Sloane’s heroine is driven by her craftiness, but the film has all the subtlety of a hammer repeatedly hitting an anvil.
Variety November 12, 2016 A talky, tense political thriller, full of verbal sparring and fiery monologues, undone by a really dumb ending.
Arizona Republic December 8, 2016 Chastain gets to play pushy, angry, smart, hurt, almost sympathetic and more. This role is a real showcase for her formidable talents.
San Diego Reader December 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...
Detroit News December 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...
Austin Chronicle December 8, 2016 [Chastain] even sells the plot’s preposterous twist like a boss. It’s not her fault, but the movie feels a little silly next...
Chicago Sun-Times December 8, 2016 While "Miss Sloane" is by no means even a minor classic of the genre, it’s fantastic, wall-to-wall entertainment, brimming with mov...
