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St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)

October 23, 2015 Friday

FINAL EDITION

'Steve Jobs' gets to the core of tech guru

BYLINE: By Calvin Wilson St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SECTION: GO!; Pg. G18

LENGTH: 339 words

Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) could not be described as a sensitive guy. The tech guru and Apple Inc. front man is all about results. Employees who don't meet his expectations tend to become ex-employees.

Jobs considers himself not just a businessman but an artist, who works with people in much the same way as the conductor of an orchestra. And if that means he's chastised for being a prima donna, so be it.

As much as his critics resent Jobs, they have to admit that even his failures are interesting. But it's extremely tough to be his friend, as his colleagues Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet) and Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen) have come to realize.

Apple marketing executive Hoffman can't believe that Jobs refuses to acknowledge that he has a young daughter, whom he treats with shocking cruelty. Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Jobs and whose skills as an electronics engineer and computer programmer were key to its success, is upset that his old buddy has the nerve to take most of the credit.

Behind the scenes at product launches in 1984, 1988 and 1998, Jobs is on uninhibited display - as a genius, and as a jerk.

"Steve Jobs" is an art film with just enough star wattage to give it a shot at multiplex supremacy. Directed by Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire"), the film is also the latest offering from screenwriter Aaron Sorkin ("The Social Network"), who brings his knack for literate dialogue and lively dramatics to a story that could easily have been insufferably inaccessible.

If nothing else, Sorkin deserves credit for taking a fresh approach to the biopic: The film is not so much about what Jobs did, as why he did it. Fassbender is intriguingly opaque as a man for whom the end justifies the means. Winslet brings just the right energy to the often exasperated Hoffman, and Rogen is surprisingly effective as the morally upright Wozniak.

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

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LOAD-DATE: October 24, 2015

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DOCUMENT-TYPE: REVIEW

PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper