Given the fact that there are two columns of what appear to be halves of clues, and that they both have the same number of elements, it's reasonable to assume that the clues on the left should be paired to the clues on the right somehow.
One good place to start is to note that many of the left-hand side clues seem strange, indicating that they are not meant to be read as straight clues, and reuse phrases such as complement, not, opposite, like. On the other hand, the right-hand halves all start with is, and generally read more straightforwardly; some are even directly solvable on their own, and act as a means of breaking in.
As it turns out, the left hand side clues all use prefixes and suffixes in a wordplay-like manner. One notable potential break-in is that ...is Mr. Sorkin clues AARON quite unambiguously, so solvers can look to the left-hand halves and try to find a clue that could match this. Ron Howard directed The Da Vinci Code, and a can be a prefix meaning not, such as in the words atypical, asexual and asymmetric, so someone who is not not Ron is AARON.
The number given in parenthesis in the left-hand halves turn out not to be enumerations of answers. (This fact could also be reasonably deduced based on the frequency of 1s that appear.) Since the halves on the right are ordered alphabetically by answer, we can deduce that it is the ordering of the clues on the left that matters. Using this ordering and indexing these numbers into the clue answers yields the cluephrase
MORE MORE MAGIC STICK. Treating this in a similar fashion as the earlier clues and answering it to an 8 letter answer as given at the bottom of the puzzle yields the final answer.
