Review: Steve Jobs film is a ‘Dell,’ not an ‘Apple’

Hollywood might someday design a sleek, prestige biopic worthy of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. For now, he’s gotten a Dell. “Jobs,” the pedestrian, inelegant film starring an earnest Ashton Kutcher certainly wouldn’t have satisfied the ruthlessly exacting computer marketing genius. Directed by Joshua Michael Stern, “Jobs” hits the well- known personal and professional milestones, beginning with Jobs and childhood friend Steve “Woz” Wozniak (Josh Gad) setting up shop in a garage to build and market the compact computer that would change the world. Apple expands, Apple stumbles, and the monstrously prickly Jobs is ousted by his own board of...

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