Don Jon Reviews
RogerEbert.com
Hearing the star of "Who's the Boss?" drop about 500 f-bombs is one of the film's few pleasures.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
AV Club
On page and screen, Gordon-Levitt mostly fails to transform his bulky title protagonist into a multi-dimensional figure. He belongs in the final 15 minutes of an SNL episode, not at the center of a full-sized comedy.
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| Original Score: C+
Screen It!
I wish Gordon-Levitt had done a lot more with this material. There was definitely potential there. (Full Content Review for Parents also available)
Las Vegas Weekly
The final moments hint at beauty and grace in Jon's new relationship, but for the movie, it's already too late.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticAn overheated disquisition on the pleasures and limitations of masturbation.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, Don Jon, does for porn-dependence what Shame did for sex addiction by offering a surface-level look at the effects of its specific pathology on its lead male character.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
honeycuttshollywood.com
In his writing-directing debut, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt fails to identify a purpose that might bring audiences into his passion project.
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| Original Score: 4
Screen International
Much like its main character, this comedy is good-hearted, a bit clumsy, endearing, and incredibly rough around the edges.
amNewYork
It's never boring, but the film plays like a thesis on the modern condition more than a genuine depiction of a romantic relationship.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
EntertainmentTell
Funny at times and touches on some interesting issues. But the Jersey caricature is so embarrassing that it ultimately sinks the film.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Crude, repetitive and rigorously single-minded, the popular actor's writing and directing debut lays it all on a bit thick, as the few points the film has to make are underscored time and time again.
RedEye
The sound of one hand clasping.
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| Original Score: 2/4
7M Pictures
When you look past Don Jon as Gordon-Levitt's movie cotillion, it's a painfully superficial and paint-by-numbers story that offers very little character development.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson give smashing performances.
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| Original Score: C+
Merely ends up trading one beefcake delusion for another.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Tolucan Times
Filled with frank conversation and gutter language, mysogynistic with misandry thrown in, it's probably not possible to make a tasteful movie about a subject as distasteful as masturbation, but this movie doesn't even try.
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| Original Score: 1/10
Cinemalogue.com
The screenplay is generally predictable in its story of redemption, and it doesn't have an ounce of subtlety.
Mark Reviews Movies
[T]he movie has no clear idea who this man is.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The movie takes a roundhouse punch at male shallowness, but Jon, in and out of his clothes, is not an interesting enough man to be emblematic of anything.
[Gordon-Levitt] can act, and there's a possibility he can also direct, but there's no evidence in Don Jon that he can do both at the same time.
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| Original Score: 2/4
