50/50 (2011)

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50/50 is about right.

November 22, 2011 Full Review

Tom Huddleston

Time Out

Top Critic

Add 50/50 to your want to see list. And then make an appointment for your annual physical with your doctor.

October 7, 2011 Full Review

Leah Rozen

The Wrap

Top Critic

Still, it's Gordon-Levitt's choices that continue to impress. Sure, he owned one of the most jaw-dropping sequences in last summer's blockbuster Inception. But the actor remains drawn to profoundly human-scale hurts and quiet triumphs.

September 30, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

Gordon-Levitt is an agreeably undemonstrative actor who plays well opposite the burbly Rogen.

September 30, 2011 Full Review

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

Chances are about 90/10 that you'll enjoy 50/50.

September 30, 2011 Full Review | Comments (12)

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

Scene by scene, 50/50 can be both amusing and moving, with the tightly wound Gordon-Levitt and the boundaryless Rogen forming an oddly complementary pair. But as a whole the movie never quite coheres.

September 30, 2011 Full Review | Comments (57)

Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

It's a brave plan to make a cancer movie that's moving, uplifting and pant-wettingly funny. But against the odds, it's definitely a case of remission accomplished.

March 14, 2013 Full Review

Andy Lea

Daily Star

Wonderfully played, with a marvelous humanity about it.

January 6, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

50/50 is a thoughtful and challenging story, grounded in real world characters, that also manages rewarding and cathartic laughs.

October 2, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kendrick

ScreenRant

50/50 is smartly written and well acted enough to have you fully invested once it's time to find out if those titular odds come good.

September 28, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

In a world where we are either given silly comedies or serious dramas, Jonathan Levine manages to bring both together in perfect harmony for 50/50.

September 17, 2012 Full Review

Jeremy Lebens

We Got This Covered

50/50 is funny, sweet, moving, well acted and touching story of friendship.

April 27, 2012 Full Review

Blake Howard

2UE That Movie Show

The tears are earned, no small thanks to the touching performances.

April 6, 2012 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

A powerfully empathetic performance by Joseph Gordon-Levitt saves 50/50 from succumbing to the annoying presence of Seth Rogen and his hophead propagandizing.

March 17, 2012 Full Review

Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

...a Gen-Y Terms of Endearment that bullseyes both the existential dilemma and piercing clarity that cancer sufferers experience.

March 7, 2012 Full Review

Simon Foster

sbs.com.au

For all of the attention 50/50 has gotten for being the 'cancer comedy', it's received not nearly enough praise for being so moving and emotionally satisfying.

February 28, 2012 Full Review

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

Deeply affecting and admirably even-keeled...

February 10, 2012 Full Review

Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

Gordon-Levitt turns depression and despair into comedy of the edgiest kind, while making his character all the more sympathetic for his occasional outbursts of anger and aggression.

January 18, 2012 Full Review

Anton Bitel

MovieScope

Todo está muy bien observado por el guionista Will Reiser con pinceladas de humor muy efectivo (casi siempre gentileza de Seth Rogen, que hace el mismo personaje de siempre y lo hace bárbaro) y también con algunas cuotas de emoción esperables.

January 14, 2012 Full Review

Enrique Buchichio

Uruguay Total

This film is thin.

January 3, 2012 Full Review | Comments (32)

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Ebert Presents At The Movies

Will Reiser's emotionally rich script -- which is based on his own battle with cancer -- never hits a wrong note, and he finds the comedy in Adam's life as easily as the drama.

January 3, 2012 Full Review

Perry Seibert

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Dark humor, smart characters and a script with a heart make '50/50' one of the best films of the year. You'll take some emotions with you when you leave the theater.

December 22, 2011 Full Review

Linda Cook

KWQC-TV (Iowa)

[A]n honest, hilarious, laugh-till-you-cry look at how very much it sucks to get very sick as a young person... The characters are all uniquely vivid and unforgettable...

December 7, 2011 Full Review

MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

To those unfortunate enough to have a potentially terminal illness, it could be inspirational.

November 27, 2011 Full Review

Christopher Tookey

Daily Mail [UK]

[A] beautifully played, precisely observed and surprisingly thoughtful buddy movie, which is based on a true story.

November 27, 2011 Full Review

Damon Wise

Radio Times

• 1. Adam: I just want it to be over. I'm so fucking tired of being sick. You know if this surgery doesn't work, it's um, that's it. And I've never, you know, I've never been to fucking Canada. I've never told a girl I loved her. It sounds stupid, doesn't it?
  2. Katherine: No, it doesn't.
  – Submitted by ac e (2 months ago)
• 1. Adam: What is it, like a Doogie Howser or something?
  2. Katherine: Who?
  3. Adam: Doogie Howser? Teenage Doctor?
  4. Katherine: Does he work here?
  – Submitted by Kathleen R (4 months ago)
• 1. Adam: You're dying dude.
  – Submitted by Daniel Angelo M (4 months ago)
• 1. Katherine: You can't change your situation. The only thing that you can change is how you choose to deal with it.
  – Submitted by Jane Morla A (6 months ago)
• 1. Adam: That's what everyone's been saying. 'You will feel better', and 'Don't worry', and 'this is all fine', and like, it's not.
  – Submitted by Jane Morla A (6 months ago)
• 1. Adam: She doesn't like to mix negative and positive energy...it's an energy idea.
  2. Alan: Well I call it a bullshit idea.
  – Submitted by Augusta M (6 months ago)

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