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Film review: Steve JobsDanny Boyle's biopic of the late founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, delivers on a grand scale, says Matthew Partridge.

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Michael Fassbender as tech tycoon Steve Jobs: the most sophisticated take yet

Steve Jobs, a new biopic starring Michael Fassbender as the controversial Apple co-founder and perhaps the world's most famous entrepreneur, was released last week in the US. While it's not out here until next month, it is being screened at the London Film Festival on Sunday and has already received plenty of attention from the critics. Directed by Danny Boyle (of Trainspotting and Olympic opening ceremony fame) and written by Aaron Sorkin (who created The West Wing TV show), it focuses on the launches of three key products Jobs was involved in: the Apple Mac in 1984, the NeXT in 1988 and the iMac in 1998.

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Shares editor, MoneyWeek

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

As senior writer, he writes the shares and politics & economics pages, as well as weekly Blowing It and Great Frauds in History columns He also writes a fortnightly reviews page and trading tips, as well as regular cover stories and multi-page investment focus features.

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