When Apple co-founder/mastermind/personification Steve Jobs died in 2011, documentarian Alex Gibney (The Armstrong Lie) found himself marveling at the massive outpouring of public grief and love. Why, he wondered, were we so upset that a rich, ungenerous businessman had left us? As the resulting documentary makes clear, he wasn't a nice guy, or even a good guy. From the get-go, he was deceptive, controlling, mean, mercenary, and on and on. (Claiming that he was sterile to avoid a paternity charge seems an especially slimy move.) And while lots of people loved his products, lots of people love lots of products (TV, for starters) without falling for their makers. The answer, built up slowly and quietly amid the praise and blame: in a profound way, Jobs put himself into what he made, and made it easy for a lot of people to follow suit. (It's hard to find it insignificant that he gave a computer the same name he gave his daughter.) Technology was his means for engaging the world and fulfilling himself, and he figured out how to make it ours. (2015) — Matthew Lickona
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