500 Days of Summer (2009)Movies

Short, sweet, raunchy and often screamingly funny, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s audacious directorial debut “Don Jon’’ addresses a burning social issue: Can someone addicted to online porn actually forge a meaningful connection with a real-life girl?

Swaggering bartender Jon Martello — winningly played by Gordon-Levitt in his first rom-com since “(500) Days of Summer’’ — faithfully attends church and the gym. To his pals’ envy, Jon has his pick of the hottest one-night stands in Hackensack, NJ (where things have apparently improved since I worked there for 18 years).

This master of his own small universe is hardly the master of his own domain. To his parish priest, Jon dutifully confesses each week his sins not only with these women...