Average Rating: 8.1/10
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Fresh: 233 | Rotten: 24
Led by charismatic performances by its three leads, director Jason Reitman delivers a smart blend of humor and emotion with just enough edge for mainstream audiences.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 4
Led by charismatic performances by its three leads, director Jason Reitman delivers a smart blend of humor and emotion with just enough edge for mainstream audiences.
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Jason Reitman's adaptation of the novel Up in the Air tells the story of Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), who makes his living personally handing out pink slips -- he's the top hatchet man at a company that other companies hire when they are downsizing. And since business is booming, his job keeps him on the go constantly. He flies all across the country, staying in a series of nice hotels. And although this itinerant lifestyle prevents him from having any kind of stable, regular life, this
Dec 4, 2009 Wide
Mar 9, 2010
$83.8M
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (257) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (236) | Rotten (24) | DVD (10)
The pitch-perfect direction by Jason Reitman perfectly balances comedy and drama.
Director Jason Reitman brings such splendid balance and nuance to Bingham's story that you can't hate the man; indeed you end up pitying him.
From taxi to touchdown, Reitman knows how to get us to the next destination.
Jason Reitman's dry, moving "comedy," based on the Walter Kirn novel, is a sly indictment of Corporate America, Marketing America and Frequent Flying America.
I think that this is a classic in the making.
Once again, Reitman the screenwriter gives Reitman the director an excuse to ponder the spaces between us and the ties that bind. Or don't.
There is perhaps no film that represents the present better ...
Sometimes, it suggests, you can fly 10 million miles but never really go anywhere at all.
Up in the Air succeeds because it doesn't take itself that seriously and it's not interested in trying to explain obvious truths to the rest of us plebeians. It just wants to show a moment of fundamental change in a man's life.
Just when you start to wonder where the surprise twists will happen, Reitman defies conventional storytelling.
Incisive and occasionally sad, this captured the zeitgeist of the late-Zeroes' tectonically shifting economics. But Jason Reitman's generous, rich, rewarding tragicomedy of occupational dissatisfaction will still wow viewers even after (hopeful) recovery.
Up in the Air is so funny, so consistently surprising and so emotionally in-touch that it could have only been crafted by one of the most soulful directors working today.
Companionship. Independence. Loyalty. Flyer miles. All are a part of the life of George Clooney's corporate downsizer in the timely, and timeless, Up in the Air.
One of the pleasures of the film is watching Jason Reitman blossom into a filmmaker light years ahead of the one who made the underwhelming Thank You For Smoking and the overly self-conscious Juno.
George Clooney is thoroughly likeable as the amusingly callous Ray - even watching him at the heart-breaking job of terminating folk en-masse is fun, but it is the women that give the film its heart.
Reitman further perfects his sharp, funny, and affecting seriocomic style in crafting films that wildly entertain in the moment and then linger long in the mind and heart.
Life happens... live it one day at a time and connect to whomever you can, even if it's the person losing their job sitting right across from you.
One of the things that makes George Clooney a great movie star is that he's always letting us know just how much fun he's having being George Clooney.
While it is a good film, a worthy film, a thoughtful film, I'm not sure it is really an Oscar-calibre film. (Blu-ray Edition)
As much as it is a comedy in the classic Tracy/Hepburn mold, "Up in the Air" is very much a drama of the moment.
Hay tantos ángulos desde donde se puede hablar de esta cinta -responsabilidad social, management, internet, matrimonio, soledad%u2026- que está desde ya, destinada a convertirse en un clásico.
A 21st Century take on downsizing and dating in this no-strings attached age of outsourcing and friends with benefits.
Well-polished bull**** at best, manifest of nothing less than everything wrong with America today.
Up in the Air is not an earth shattering drama we have not seen done before. George Clooney is great in his role as a heartless individual who eventually turns a new leaf to be a good man but we've seen him play this role dozens of times. He's an actor with one face and this is him doing the Oceans Eleven and The Men
April 8, 2012
Super Reviewer
"Up in the Air" is an ensemble dramedy that evenly balances all of its narrative aspects and puts them together to make a deeply satisfying story of a damaged man. As you can probably tell, its magnificently directed with apt editing and an extremely clever and sharp script. "Up in the Air" is a transcendental
April 5, 2011Super Reviewer
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