Its generic format and predictable narrative arc relegates the film to being a 'solid' date movie, at best a middling drama-comedy that will more than likely be quickly forgotten.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2018

So wrapped up in Hollywood convention that not even Seth Rogen can lift this out of the Lifetime Movie for Hipsters aisle

Full Review | Aug 28, 2018

This film is thin.

Full Review | Jan 3, 2012

This film leaves a strange taste in the mouth.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 25, 2011

a good movie with a moderate sense of daring that ultimately spends too much time telling the wrong story

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 10, 2011

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.

Full Review | Sep 30, 2011

Fact-inspired yet unpersuasive, transforming neurofibrosarcoma into a lucky break -- a short cut to a more purposeful life, complete with an attractive age-appropriate cancer therapist to replace the unfaithful girlfriend.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 30, 2011

The truly outrageous idea, that you can use being gravely ill to get sympathy hookups for yourself and your friends - as underlined in the movie's original, better title, "I'm With Cancer" - is given short shrift.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 30, 2011

Neither the actor nor the filmmakers can get under Adam's skin, despite all the close-ups and the moodily shot scenes filled with the kind of movie silence that feels more like the groping of an uncertain screenwriter than of a man facing his mortality.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2011

To the extent that 50/50 works, it because of Gordon-Levitt, one of my favorite actors.

Full Review | Sep 29, 2011

An edgy concept, promising director, and a fine cast done in by bromides.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 28, 2011

My reaction to everything that happens in 50/50 was "Why don't they just walk out?" But nobody did, so I did it for them.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 28, 2011

This film could use a lot more affliction and a lot less cure.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2011

That leaves it to Gordon-Levitt to take on the emotional weight of the film. And while he's always convincing, the surrounding story elements make for a less than resonant experience.

Full Review | Sep 14, 2011