50/50 User Reviews

In my sophomore year of High School my History class watched Braveheart a few days before our spring break started and it was the most infuriating experience in my movie-watching life. Not because the movie was bad, but because my history teacher insisted on pausing the movie every ten minutes ...

50/50 is the most blatant use of the term I could ever use to describe this film. The film is part romantic comedy and part dramedy. Yet, I enjoyed the hell out of it. Perhaps it was the suburban skylines that brought me in, I don't know. What's more impressive ...

50/50 centers on Adam, an almost paranoid risk-aware thirty-something with an artist girlfriend and a womanizing best friend, who learns that he has a potentially life-threatening cancer which throws his life and relationships into disarray. New relationships and old come into this melting pot of emotions to great dramatic payoff, ...

This is a review I wrote for my school newspaper, slightly edited:50/50 is about cancer. While that mat sounds like it could end up being a complete bummer, 50/50 manages to balance the heavy subject matter with a healthy amount of heart and humor.Joseph Gordon Levitt plays Adam, a 27 ...

50/50 is less a comedy about cancer, and more just a serious film about cancer that happens to be quite funny at times. Knowing that it was based on the writer's own experience, it's not hard to figure out how the movie will end, but on its way there there's ...