Austin Chronicle: 50/50 Review
50/50 isn't the first cancer comedy; Judd Apatow's Funny People took a whack at it only two years ago, with Seth Rogen riding shotgun there, too. But Funny People is really more a dissertation on a professional comic's damaged psyche, whereas 50/50 genuinely wants to explore what it's like for someone – specifically, someone quite young – to undergo the unimaginable awfulness of a cancer diagnosis.
