Chicago Sun-Times by Richard Roeper

Director John Madden (“Shakespeare in Love,” the “Exotic Marigold Hotel” movies) expertly juggles the various subplots while never losing his main focus, which is to showcase Jessica Chastain’s nearly infinite palette of acting shades.

The Playlist by Nick Schager

Jessica Chastain is a great actress, but with Miss Sloane, she also proves that she’s a great movie star.

The Hollywood Reporter by Todd McCarthy

So intriguing are the driven, smart and compromised characters, and so infinite are the dramatic possibilities at the intersection of big business and politics, that a vastly expanded small-screen take built around these characters, and others like them, would be quite welcome..

Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang

See this smart, showboating movie now, before its simmering sense of justice begins to feel like a thing of the past.

Total Film by Neil Smith

Chastain stalks the corridors of power with steely aplomb in Madden’s coolly compelling incursion into House of Cards territory.

The Telegraph by Tim Robey

It’s addictive fantasy, satisfyingly snappy even in its absurdity, and something no Chastain fan can afford to miss.

CineVue by Joe Walsh

While Chastain, and the surrounding cast, drive the narrative there is no denying that as time runs on it begins to unravel frustratingly, reaching an unsatisfying conclusion. Yet, Chastain's performance is one that lingers in the mind.

Entertainment Weekly by Leah Greenblatt

Chastain fully commits to her boss-bitch persona, even if we only obliquely learn why she might have chosen such a lonely, mercenary life.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

Sloane is a nasty piece of work. Yet Chastain draws us in, making us see what the character keeps inside by the sheer force of her fireball performance. There are times when Miss Sloane plays like a pilot for a TV series. No knock on that. If Chastain stars, I'm in.

USA Today by Brian Truitt

The intelligent, timely and twisty thriller Miss Sloane introduces an antiheroine feared by both Republicans and Democrats. Jessica Chastain is all hellfire and high heels as powerful Washington lobbyist Elizabeth Sloane.

New York Daily News by Stephen Whitty

Jessica Chastain plays Sloane, and she's the kind of Washington power-player who'd scare off half the cast of "Scandal" — towering heels, pulled-back hair and a taste for the kill.

Variety by Peter Debruge

Miss Sloane is a talky, tense political thriller, full of verbal sparring and fiery monologues, undone by a really dumb ending. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t smart for most of its running time.

IndieWire by David Ehrlich

In a movie that likens passing legislation to pulling off a massive heist, eventually departing from reality altogether in a series of late-game twists so intricate they would make Danny Ocean blush, the sheer velocity of Chastain’s performance holds it all together.

Slant Magazine by Kenji Fujishima

The screenplay's enigmatic nature holds one's interest throughout, even as the film veers into pat moralism.

Screen Daily by Tim Grierson

Miss Sloane is a shallow but lively thriller which becomes undermined by its makers’ misplaced belief in the profundity of their topical tale.

Village Voice by Abbey Bender

Miss Sloane, with all its Capitol Hill gloss, sometimes feels too much like a primetime political television drama.

Screen International by Tim Grierson

Miss Sloane is a shallow but lively thriller which becomes undermined by its makers’ misplaced belief in the profundity of their topical tale.

The Guardian by Nigel M Smith

Chastain single handedly prevents it all from veering off the rails by dominating Miss Sloane with her forceful presence. She grounds her heroine to ensure you’re with her.

TheWrap by Alonso Duralde

Rather than take the time to let us really get to know and understand its complicated title character, the movie instead goes for cheap, gotcha plotting that undermines the entire project.

The Film Stage by Daniel Schindel

It looks and feels less like a film and more like a feature-length pilot for a new TV series which happens to have a stacked cast.