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Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine offers absorbing viewing, even if it doesn't delve deeply into its complex subject.
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Despite the movie's journalistic substance, the pleasure-free banality of its style gets in the way of a view of Jobs himself, whose work is as much aesthetic as it is industrial. Sep 14, 2015 | Full Review…
Despite the movie's journalistic substance, the pleasure-free banality of its style gets in the way of a view of Jobs himself, whose work is as much aesthetic as it is industrial.
Richard Brody
Little here is new, but the archival footage is well chosen, the interviewees are illuminating, and Gibney, as usual, potently synthesizes what's out there. Sep 4, 2015 | Full Review…
Little here is new, but the archival footage is well chosen, the interviewees are illuminating, and Gibney, as usual, potently synthesizes what's out there.
David Edelstein
There is practically nothing in this film that was not already raked over in Walter Isaacson's 2013 biography or in the many thousands of articles about Jobs over the years. But there is something about seeing and hearing this story onscreen. Sep 4, 2015 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
There is practically nothing in this film that was not already raked over in Walter Isaacson's 2013 biography or in the many thousands of articles about Jobs over the years. But there is something about seeing and hearing this story onscreen.
Peter Rainer
"Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine" is still wholly engrossing, especially in its first half, when it tells its thrilling creation stories. Sep 4, 2015 | Rating: 85/100 | Full Review…
"Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine" is still wholly engrossing, especially in its first half, when it tells its thrilling creation stories.
Inkoo Kang
A complex portrait that gives as much weight to Jobs' world-changing talents as to his personal flaws. Sep 4, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A complex portrait that gives as much weight to Jobs' world-changing talents as to his personal flaws.
Godfrey Cheshire
Brings home the complexities and contradictions of the man. Sep 3, 2015 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Brings home the complexities and contradictions of the man.
Steven Rea
An honest film about the life of Jobs. Using archive footage and interviewing the people who were closest to him, the film removes the rose-colored glasses to bring us the real man behind the technology that we are so very fond of today. May 2, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An honest film about the life of Jobs. Using archive footage and interviewing the people who were closest to him, the film removes the rose-colored glasses to bring us the real man behind the technology that we are so very fond of today.
Mae Abdulbaki
Perhaps because this film follows his much-seen expose of Scientology, Going Clear, Gibney seems especially struck by the cultishness with which so many people seem to regard Jobs. Oct 10, 2017 | Full Review…
Perhaps because this film follows his much-seen expose of Scientology, Going Clear, Gibney seems especially struck by the cultishness with which so many people seem to regard Jobs.
M. Faust
An overlong but insightful documentary. Aug 29, 2016 | Full Review…
An overlong but insightful documentary.
Joe O'Connell
A welcome (and, frankly, a bit overdue) corrective to the Jobs hagiography. May 28, 2016 | Full Review…
A welcome (and, frankly, a bit overdue) corrective to the Jobs hagiography.
Jason Bailey
Not only on a biographical account of Jobs, but also a look at the way in which big business and consumers at large engaged with the mythic personal narrative he fostered. Apr 1, 2016 | Rating: Recommended | Full Review…
Not only on a biographical account of Jobs, but also a look at the way in which big business and consumers at large engaged with the mythic personal narrative he fostered.
Conor Bateman
Gibney is never able to join, or understand, the choir of millions singing the praises of Steve Jobs. Perhaps because of this, the documentary he has created seems a lot closer to the truth than anything else I've seen about Jobs. Dec 23, 2015 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Gibney is never able to join, or understand, the choir of millions singing the praises of Steve Jobs. Perhaps because of this, the documentary he has created seems a lot closer to the truth than anything else I've seen about Jobs.
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