Up in the Air
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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).
Starring
George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Danny McBride, Melanie Lynskey
Directed by
Jason Reitman ('Juno', 'Thank You For Smoking')
Written by
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner
Festivals & Awards
BAFTA and Golden Globe winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, 2010.
(M) contains offensive language & nudity | Comedy, Drama | USA | Official Website
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Chicago Sun-Times (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.
Click to read full review.Empire Magazine (UK)
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.
Click to read full review.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.
Click to read full review.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.
Click to read full review.NZ Herald (Francesca Rudkin)
An entertaining, smart, and classy piece of film-making.
Click to read full review.TV3 (Kate Rodger)
Up in the Air is a very good film, and a nourishing very worthy 4-star watch.
Click to read full review.Variety (USA)
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.
Click to read full review.ViewAuckland.co.nz (Matt Turner)
Hugely enjoyable, well written comedy-drama that delivers a powerful emotional kick, thanks to terrific performances and strong chemistry between Clooney and Farmiga.
Click to read full review.Flicks.co.nz "Up in the Air" Movie Review
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Rebecca Barry Hill, Flicks.co.nz
There’s no better time for a movie about redundancy and the a-holes hired to do the firing. George Clooney is perfectly cast as the non-committal, hotel-hopping schmoozer downsizing companies across America. As convincing as Clooney is, Ryan’s world is pretty far-fetched. Here’s a guy who doesn’t like being at home, has no ties to anyone, anything or any place. So it helps if you can suspend disbelief for those who’d rather eat plane food than a home-cooked meal.
But just as Lost in Translation captured the loneliness of travel, Up in the Air brings its ridiculous nuances, from loyalty cards and crappy corporate parties, to life. Essentially the film hangs on the connections that arise out of being transient and how well you can really know someone you only see sporadically.
Nothing about Ryan’s cute relationship with Alex, played by the cool and classy Vera Farmiga, feels like a conventional Hollywood romance. His slowly thawing relationship with icy upstart Natalie, Generation Y in a suit jacket, is just as believable.
It’s a shame that a real-life scene at the end whacks viewers over the head with the moral, since the film’s main messages resonate throughout: no one is indispensible, family is all that really matters, life will teach you lessons when you least expect it. A first-class comedy.
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