Rotten
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, New Yorker
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Bold. Brilliant. Brutal.
2015 · 2h 9m · R
Documentary
Directed by
Alex Gibney
Overview
When Steve Jobs died the world wept. But what accounted for the grief of millions of people who didn’t know him? This evocative film navigates Jobs' path from a small house in the suburbs, to zen temples in Japan, to the CEO's office of the world's richest company, exploring how Jobs’ life and work shaped our relationship with the computer. The Man in the Machine is a provocative and sometimes startling re-evaluation of the legacy of an icon.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
76%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
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, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh
"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, TheWrap
Fresh
A complex portrait that gives as much weight to Jobs' world-changing talents as to his personal flaws.
Godfrey Cheshire, RogerEbert.com
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