93% 50/50

All Critics (134) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (124) | Rotten (9)

Still, it's Gordon-Levitt's choices that continue to impress. Sure, he owned one of the most jaw-dropping sequences in last summer's blockbuster Inception. But the actor remains drawn to profoundly human-scale hurts and quiet triumphs.

Gordon-Levitt is an agreeably undemonstrative actor who plays well opposite the burbly Rogen.

Chances are about 90/10 that you'll enjoy 50/50.

Scene by scene, 50/50 can be both amusing and moving, with the tightly wound Gordon-Levitt and the boundaryless Rogen forming an oddly complementary pair. But as a whole the movie never quite coheres.

In other hands, Adam might well be hard to take. But as the comedy in 50/50 turns darker, Gordon-Levitt, who's maybe the most natural, least affected actor of his generation, makes prickly plenty engaging.

An everyman tale with plenty of heart and honesty, the serious subject matter is regularly enlivened with jolts of genuine hilarity, some of it in delightfully questionable taste.

Interesting commentary on how we deal with difficult situations, and makes a strong case for our desperate need for each other -- especially when the odds are stacked against us.

... surprisingly funny, while also honestly poignant and dramatic.

...one of the unexpected pleasures of the fall movie season.

"50/50" is a tear jerker film that has me calling it one of the best films of 2011.

You'll walk out a stronger person than you were when you went in.

50/50 is not just another crude piece of mockery. Crude at times, yes, but at its occasionally uneven soul is a very funny and bluntly moving tale of living within the fringes of potential death.

Doesn't even quite pull off 'very good,' but it easily walks off with a solid 'good.' And in 2011, good may be good enough.

Swapping out the usual relationship tangle for a cancer-centric plot, 50/50 feels like this year's (500) Days Of Summer.

As honest as [screenwriter Will Reiser] could make it within the parameters of an uplifting crowd-pleaser.

[The filmmakers] tap into the wonderful complexity of the material: Cancer is awful, but it's instructive and loving and funny, too.

Not the comedy I expected but instead a well acted but depressing film.

Cancer patient questions his life in mature dramedy.

50/50 keeps the highs high. That's easy. Keeping the lows high is much more tricky. The lows are where most dying-of-a-disease movies go to die.

Funny, heartfelt, well-acted and refreshingly honest. It's one of the best movies of the year.

Amazingly upbeat and comical despite realistically depicting what it's like to know you have only a 50/50 chance of surviving a rare cancer.

As Adam in 50/50, Gordon-Levitt is low-key, but very human. His expressive face shines and darkens. Director Jonathan Levine brings him back to simple, expressive humanity.

'50/50' plays cancer for laughs.

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