Variety
The timing in the Clooney-Farmiga scenes is like splendid tennis, with each player surprising the other with shots but keeping the rally going to breathtaking duration.
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Up in the Air
From Jason Reitman, director of Juno and Thank You For Smoking, comes a comedy-drama about frequent flyers.
George Clooney is Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams (Vera Farmiga).
BAFTA and Golden Globe winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, 2010.
2009Rating: M, contains offensive language & nudity 109 minsUSA
ComedyDrama
- Director:
- Jason Reitman ('Juno', 'Thank You For Smoking')
- Writer:
- Jason ReitmanSheldon Turner
- Cast:
- George ClooneyVera FarmigaAnna KendrickJason BatemanDanny McBrideMelanie Lynskey
Up in the Air / Reviews
Roger Ebert
Up in the Air takes the trust people once had in their jobs and pulls out the rug. It is a film for this time.
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Los Angeles Times
Up in the Air makes it look easy. Not just in its casual and apparently effortless excellence, but in its ability to blend entertainment and insight, comedy and poignancy, even drama and reality, things that are difficult by themselves but a whole lot harder in combination. This film does all that and never seems to break a sweat.
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Hollywood Reporter
It's rare for a movie to be at once so biting and so moving. If Ryan's future seems bleak, there's something exhilarating about a movie made with such clear-eyed intelligence.
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Empire Magazine
Oscar frontrunner? Certainly. But don’t let that drag it into some tough-but-good-for-you category. This is smart, silky, sensitive, and funny old-school movie magic.
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