AVClub: At the start of Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine, the prolific documentarian admits that he approached his latest film—his third released this year—with no small amount of personal bias. Gibney says he feels conflicted about the late Steve Jobs, a man whose leadership of Apple led to products so beautiful and life-changing that his disciples seem willing to overlook his personal faults and unethical business practices. In an effort to correct the narrative, Gibney dives in and rakes the muck, digging up anecdotes that make Jobs look petty and cruel. The Man In The Machine doesn’t discount all that Jobs accomplished, and what his work and public persona have meant to people. But as an expression of the filmmaker’s own sense of guilt over buying into the Apple myth, this picture intends to be a bummer.
Sam Love writes- Since the death of Apple’s Steve Jobs in 2011, we’ve had two biopic films about the man. Firstly, we had Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher which, from what I’ve been told, was utter wank. I didn’t go anywhere near it.
EW
or the past decade, Alex Gibney has been cranking out documentaries at a prolific clip, taking on (and often taking down) black-hat subjects like Enron, Lance Armstrong, and Scientology. In his latest exposé disguised as biography, he sets his crosshairs on Steve Jobs, Apple’s prickly visionary who gave technology its soul. Some have taken Gibney to task for being too damning, focusing less on Jobs’ innovative genius than on assembling a brief on Apple’s villainy, ranging from serious allegations (tax dodging, stock fraud) to the pettiness of Jobs himself (he was a bad tipper).
Mashable
Steve Jobs never compromised, nor did he pull punches. Neither does Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney.
Jobs' life, influence and legacy get Gibney's full journalistic treatment in Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, the first trailer for which Mashable debuts here.
