50/50

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a young man in his 20s who gets diagnosed with a cancer growing along his spine. One that, when he looks it up online, shows a survival rate of 50%. The movie then follows him as he enters chemotherapy and how his life in altered by his illness. Honestly I'm willing to watch Gordon-Levitt is most anything and he doesn't disappoint here. And he's nicely balanced by the more crude Seth Rogen, playing his best friend. Also worth seeing are the three main women in his life. The girlfriend played by Byrce Dallas Howard, his therapist by Anna Kendrick and his mom by Angelica Huston. Huston in particular is a treasure, and the director does well not to overuse her character...

Darkly funny at times and also bleakly sad. But I'd say genuinely as good as its criticism and praise makes out...