Arts & Entertainment

MOVIE REVIEWS: 'Jobs' Boasts Great Performance, Superficial Story

Ashton Kutcher portrays Steve Jobs in the years from 1971 to 2001.

By Ann Marie Quill 

"Jobs" is rated PG-13 and runs 2 hours and 5 minutes. Click here for movie showtimes in Cobb County.

Here's what the critics are saying:

One thing it doesn't do is offer a revealing look at the mercurial entrepreneur. The movie that bears his name settles on a blandly superficial treatment of a deeply complex man. — Claudia Puig, USA Today
Kutcher nails the genius and narcissism. It's a quietly dazzling performance. — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Even as "Jobs" sticks to the facts of Jobs' life (and what a difficult person he could be), the movie gets a little too caught up in his legend. — Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

Joshua Michael Stern’s biographical look Steve Jobs is a passably entertaining account of the career of one of the 20th century’s great innovators that breaks no new stylistic ground and hews closely to the public perception of the tech giant. — Justin Lowe, The Hollywood Reporter

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