Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Promosso con riserve, ma con una grande lezione da tenere a mente: diffidate sempre di una fidanzata (…o di un fidanzato) a cui piacciono i brutti film…
- Marina Antunes @ Row Three
- [New – 4/3/14] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Edwin Arnaudin @ Ashvegas
- Excerpt: Balancing these views of love and life, Gordon-Levitt conducts each detail of his film with winning humor, sexiness, and brains to spare. It’s an all-star effort from the renaissance man and a strong sign of more great things to come.
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: http://flavorwire.com/417248/is-don-jon-the-first-truly-honest-movie-about-porn/
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: A film with tense, ironic energy in the way that scenes flow and shots collide, but in a way that feels a bit overfamiliar and safe.
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: it feels exactly like a first-time writing and directing effort by an actor who tends to be that indie darling
- Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Joseph Gordon-Levitt hace una opera prima interesante, que a veces se engolosina con su propia idea
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt does double duty, making his feature writing/directing debut with this terrific and unusual comedy that taps into this year’s cinematic focus on porn while following the basic groove of “Saturday Night Fever.”
- Billy Donnelly @ This Is Infamous
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: [T]he movie has no clear idea who this man is.
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: From ‘Pillow Talk’ to pornography in three generations! Joseph Gordon-Levitt cleverly distinguishes the difference between lust and love.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Don Jon is incredibly repetitive. That’s the point I’m sure, but it‘s so single minded as to be uninteresting.
- Travis Hopson @ Punch Drunk Critics
- Excerpt: Don Jon is deceptively smart, funny, and perceptive, while cool enough that guys won’t have to fear taking their ladies out to see it.
- Daniel Kelly @ The Boar
- Excerpt: Don Jon is a clinical and amusing Hollywood comedy, albeit one that’s aim possibly outstrips its means
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Filthy and boldly racy, “Don Jon” also has a wiseness and a sincere heart under its trousers.
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Excerpt: Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Don Jon taps on a point that almost all men and an ever-rising number of women already know, but will rarely admit to in public: Pornography is over-the-top, exaggerated fantasy fulfillment in the same way “legitimate” genre pictures are.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Piers Marchant @ Sweet Smell of Success
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: Don Jon is a diverting entertainment but rather feeble as a warning about the effects of pornography or as a drama about unrealistic expectations.
- Jason McKiernan @ Film Racket
- Excerpt: That Gordon-Levitt is willing to delve into this subject is laudable. That he isn’t willing to follow it to its messy and difficult conclusion is unfortunate.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: Weren’t we all clamoring for a lightly comedic version of Shame set amongst the cast of Jersey Shore?
- Jamie S. Rich @ Oregon Live
- Excerpt: The dialogue’s frank and much of what we see is explicit enough to make this a film exclusively for grown-ups. Luckily, the emotional places Gordon-Levitt takes his characters are pretty grown-up, too.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Don Jon is maybe the most daring and confident film you will ever see, but it’s subject matter may make some people squirm.
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Josh Spiegel @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Don Jon is a film that, fearfully, believes it has Something Important to say about modern culture. It is a surprisingly misanthropic piece of work, one that just barely has a more negative view of women than it does of men.
- Thomas Spurlin @ ThomasSpurlin.com
