Don Jon Reviews

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.8/10

JGL. DTF. Sorta.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Joseph Gordon-Levitt turns the gym-tan-laundry routine into an art form with Don Jon, his vibrant and viciously profane directorial debut.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

This is a very funny, well-written film. Unlike most romantic comedies, it is both thought-provoking and introspective.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Very funny and with some social commentary, "Don Jon" is an admirable first effort for Gordon-Levitt behind the camera.

Full Review | Original Score: B

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

It's difficult to rate a movie that doesn't really start until its last half hour.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

An impressive debut as writer/director/star.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Don Jon has attitude, conveyed as much through the solid performances as it is through the director's unflinching approach to some complicated subjects.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

I find it a film that's much easier to admire than actually like.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The fact that one can think of a movie about a guy hooked on porn as charming is high praise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Technology has enabled this Don to do what the original Don Juan may have ultimately wanted: to be pleasured alone, giving nothing of himself.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

A romantic comedy with edge. Joseph Gordon Levitt makes an impressive writing and directing debut. Scarlett Johansson is terrific.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

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.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt has firmly cemented his place among Hollywood's elite.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Offbeat, frank and often surprising gem.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5