Steve Jobs (2015)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Steve Jobs	Michael Fassbender	½
Joanna Hoffman	Kate Winslet
Steve Wozniak	Seth Rogen	½
John Sculley	Jeff Daniels
Chrisann Brennan	Katherine Waterston
Andy Hertzfeld	Michael Stuhlbarg
Lisa Brennan-Jobs	Makenzie Moss Ripley Sobo Perla Haney-Jardine
Andy Cunningham	Sarah Snook
Avie Tevanian	Adam Shapiro
Joel Pforzheimer	John Ortiz

Review

Although Aaron Sorkin's dialogues are a little too quippy for them to be wholly believable, and it would be a valid point to claim that the life of Steve Jobs already has been more than fully covered on film, Danny Boyle's skilful direction and the elegant, almost poetic narrative structure help set this third biographical film about the Apple founder (after Pirates of Silicon Valley and Jobs) apart. Contrary to Jobs, which was a chronological reeling-off of events, Steve Jobs has more artistic merit as it presents Jobs' persona through a juxtaposition of three similar landmark events in his career: the launchings of the Apple Macintosh in 1984, NeXT in 1988 and finally the iMac in 1998, respectively. Sorkin's (sometimes too) clever writing is balanced by Boyle's tasteful touches, and the film is fortified by a strong lead performance by Michael Fassbender, who looks nothing like Steve Jobs, but bases his work on the character's core – incidentally the completely opposite method of Ashton Kutcher's in Jobs.