Ranking May 2017's Movies From Worst To Best

5. Miss Sloane

RottenTomatoes Score: 74% (6.5/10)

Box Office: Even with a mere $13 million budget, Jessica Chastain's political thriller hasn't even made half its cost back.

Verdict: Jessica Chastain gives a firecracker performance as a ferociously determined Washington lobbyist in a film that went weirdly ignored last Oscar season during its U.S. release, despite Chastain giving easily one of the best lead performances of 2016.

Veteran filmmaker John Madden does a terrific job making the barbed dialogue pop, mining unexpected suspense out of primarily talky scenes, and though it runs a little too long in the end, Chastain's intense performance makes for thoroughly compulsive viewing.