Steve Jobs, which I've seen three times now, is a curious and entertaining film. Until recently seen as a top Oscar favorite, it's also proved to be a shocking box office bomb, falling away to virtually nothing just now after only its third weekend in general release. In some respects, an exhilarating, incisive, insightful and fascinating examination of high tech visionary and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at three key junctures in both his own all too short life and the course of global technology, it is also a distorted, downbeat, cloying, and claustrophobic piece of work that, fortunately, maddens less often than it satisfies. Hard as it is to typify, it's perhaps not a surprise that...
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