So STEVE JOBS is more of an actor's movie in which the performances outweigh every other area of the film. Which isn't a negative, but is what it is. Take that for what it's worth.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 1, 2017

I know exactly who Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, is. Steve Jobs feels a revelation because it exposes Steve Jobs, the man.

| Jun 14, 2017

The Jobs here will always be "Aaron Sorkin's Jobs"... who people say was nerdier and more youthfully exuberant than the fully in-control maestro depicted in the film. But Fassbender does a great job with what he's given.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2016

A reminder of Sorkin's true gifts as a dramatist; it also boasts a crackerjack ensemble cast, subtle yet substantial direction by Boyle, and a welcome explosion of exceedingly tedious biopic tropes.

| May 3, 2016

Fassbender, in a superb performance, portrays [Jobs] as a genius -- but also as a painfully flawed human being.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2016

Boyle does something surprising with Sorkin's endless cascades of dialogue: He turns them into music.

| Dec 7, 2015

Sometimes Fassbender's face is rigid with tension. Elsewhere he's loosey goosey. What's uncanny is that despite no prosthetics being used he never looks like himself.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2015

From the trademark quickfire walk-and-talk dialogue (Boyle calls it a "standing-up movie") to the slick sociopolitical satire, this runs on Sorkin software.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2015

Sorkin smothers any intrigue or ambiguity and signposts every irony. What he has written is a set of instructions, not a script.

| Nov 12, 2015

It is well made, and the performances are ace, as is the dialogue, and I was kept interested, so the journey may well be worthwhile, even if the destination is not.

| Nov 12, 2015

Boyle is to be hugely congratulated for suppressing his taste for cinematic bravado and allowing the drama to play out at its own pace.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2015

[Boyle's] real achievement is making cinema out of material that isn't even a stage play as much as very expensive radio: a battery of dialogue, unbroken by reflective pauses or even, on occasion, the actors drawing breath.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2015

A drama that is genuinely concerned with thinking and ideas relevant to the way we live now.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2015

Steve Jobs is scuppered by its repetitive nature, with Sorkin's overly verbose dialogue and Boyle's proclivity for on-the-nose visual statements sorely testing the patience, even if one is prepared for them.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 11, 2015

For all its relevance and grandeur, Steve Jobs is ridiculously entertaining. You might say, user-friendly.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 29, 2015

Steve Jobs is successful in conveying the excitement verging on hysteria that each new launch provoked. It deals very skilfully with the ups and downs in Jobs' career -- his wilderness years after he left Apple and his glorious return.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2015

It does to the traditional biographical movie what Jobs himself did to traditional ideas about computers.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 22, 2015

As original and risk-taking as its subject, "Steve Jobs" will make you think differently about an American icon.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 22, 2015

Boyle's film makes technology warm-blooded, and reminds us that every machine has its ghost.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2015

Kate Winslet contributes a fine performance as his battered "work-wife" Joanna Hoffman and, as Jobs, hateful but undeniable, Michael Fassbender is terrific, much better than as Macbeth, an Oscar-contender for sure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2015