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Jobs

2013

Joshua Michael Stern

Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Matthew Modine ...

5.2

13,255

Drama The extraordinary story of Steve Jobs' (1955-2011) ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century. Jobs was an original innovator and ground-breaking entrepreneur who let nothing stand in the way of greatness. The film tells the epic and turbulent story of Jobs as he blazed a trail that changed technology -- and the world -- forever!

	Media	Author	Review
		Justin Lowe The Hollywood Reporter	"A biopic that's perhaps too respectful of the tech icon's innovations still remains frequently engaging"
		Justin Chang Variety	"The casting of Ashton Kutcher turns out to be the sole risky element of 'Jobs', a smooth, reasonably engaging but not especially revealing early-years account of Steve Jobs' storied career"
		Ed Gibbs The Guardian	"This is far from the bomb some would have envisaged, but neither is it the character illumination one would wish for (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Jobs' is a one-man show that needed to go for broke and doesn't (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The Great Man theory of history that’s recycled in this movie is inevitably unsatisfying, but never more so when the figure at the center remains as opaque as 'Jobs' does here"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"The movie is constantly at war with attempts to provide an honest portrayal"
		Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times	"There was a time when the slack storytelling, stock characterizations (...) could be put into perspective by saying it seemed like a TV biopic. But even TV movies are done with more verve than this these days"
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"One thing it doesn't do is offer a revealing look at the mercurial entrepreneur. The movie (...) settles on a blandly superficial treatment of a deeply complex man (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Nobody talks in this movie; everyone speechifies or take turns sloganing one another to death (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"
		Lou Lumenick New York Post	"If you want the real story, you’ll have to read Walter Isaacson’s fascinating 2011 biography, which would make a much better film than this one (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"

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