Don Jon Reviews
Antagony & Ecstasy
A film with tense, ironic energy in the way that scenes flow and shots collide, but in a way that feels a bit overfamiliar and safe.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Paste Magazine
Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes an assured debut as a writer-director with Don Jon, a cultural critique of the expectations placed on relationships in an environment saturated with media misrepresentations of both women and men.
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| Original Score: 8.8/10
Top CriticJoseph Gordon-Levitt turns the gym-tan-laundry routine into an art form with Don Jon, his vibrant and viciously profane directorial debut.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has teetered on being the Next Big Thing. He's finally there with 'Don Jon,' a grownups-only movie about addiction and compulsion in which he stars. He also wrote and directed this movie about a man's obsession with pornography.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Laramie Movie Scope
This is a very funny, well-written film. Unlike most romantic comedies, it is both thought-provoking and introspective.
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| Original Score: B
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
Very funny and with some social commentary, "Don Jon" is an admirable first effort for Gordon-Levitt behind the camera.
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| Original Score: B
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
If Don Jon does not offer a lasting détente in the war of the genders, it does smartly delineate the gap between men's and women's respective fantasy lives.
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| Original Score: B+
Seven Days
It's difficult to rate a movie that doesn't really start until its last half hour.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Three Movie Buffs
An impressive debut as writer/director/star.
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| Original Score: 3/4
CinemaBlend.com
Don Jon has attitude, conveyed as much through the solid performances as it is through the director's unflinching approach to some complicated subjects.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
I find it a film that's much easier to admire than actually like.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Bullz-Eye.com
The fact that one can think of a movie about a guy hooked on porn as charming is high praise.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Cinemalogue.com
The screenplay is generally predictable in its story of redemption, and it doesn't have an ounce of subtlety.
LarsenOnFilm
Technology has enabled this Don to do what the original Don Juan may have ultimately wanted: to be pleasured alone, giving nothing of himself.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Movieline
A romantic comedy with edge. Joseph Gordon Levitt makes an impressive writing and directing debut. Scarlett Johansson is terrific.
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| Original Score: 4/5
AfterElton.com
Gordon-Levitt has delivered a lively, timely, and decidedly adult look at love and sex that is both uncommonly mature for a first-time director and very fresh.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Kaplan vs. Kaplan
If you can handle the porn, go see this movie, if for nothing else than to experience how very talented Joseph Gordon-Levitt truly is.
Kaplan vs. Kaplan
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has firmly cemented his place among Hollywood's elite.
Creative Loafing
It's Julianne Moore's character who most allows Don Jon to upgrade from being a humorous and perceptive movie about naughty Internet connections into a heartfelt and perceptive movie about necessary human connections.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
