Let’s talk about Miss Sloane, the character first. She’s not nice. In fact, she’s a pill-popping insomniac who eats at the same Washington Ramen noodle joint every night because it spares her the pain ...

At the heart of Miss Sloane—and a cool heart it is—lies a question. Why does the title character walk out on her lucrative career as one of D.C.’s highest-paid lobbyists to join an underfunded ...

There’s never a hair out of place in “Miss Sloane,” a painstakingly slick political thriller from director John Madden about a brilliant, lone-wolf lobbyist consumed with the win. It’s a wannabe Aaron ...

There’s almost no one I’d rather watch play a strong female character in a film than Jessica Chastain, and she’s so good in her new movie that she almost makes this confusing, over-the-top drama work.