From Jason Reitman, the Oscar® nominated director of “Juno,” comes a dramatic comedy called “Up in the Air” starring Oscar® winner George Clooney as 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 after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.--©Official Site
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Empire Magazine
Ian Nathan
"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."
16/02/2010
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The Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
""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."
04/12/2009
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The Daily Mail
Chris Tookey
"The trailer hints at straightforward romantic comedy, with Clooney caught between two women; but really it's an acerbic morality tale, with a big debt to the tougher, darker side of Hollywood comedy, personified by those near-forgotten greats Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder."
15/01/2010
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Variety
Todd McCarthy
""Up in the Air" is a slickly engaging piece of lightweight existentialism highlighted by winning turns from George Clooney and Vera Farmiga. Just as "Thank You for Smoking" and "Juno" did in their own ways, Jason Reitman's third film cleverly taps into specific cultural aspects of the contemporary zeitgeist, although in a somewhat less comically convulsive manner."
06/09/2009
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The Sunday Times
Cosmo Landesman
"Up in the Air is a film that looks at a heartless world with plenty of heart, although I have a few doubts about its method. We hear and see the heartfelt testimonies of employees who have been sacked, and Reitman has mixed real people telling their true stories with actors. What’s the point of that? It’s easy to provoke an emotion in your audience by parading these weeping men and depressed women... And the film’s ultimate message that life is better lived with someone else is a bit bland, a modern version of EM Forster’s “Only connect”."
17/01/2010
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The Times
Kevin Maher
"And while Farmiga and Kendrick provide some flawless support, this is ultimately Clooney’s film. As Bingham’s suavely conceited façade slowly cracks throughout the movie, Clooney reveals hitherto unexplored actorly depths. He’s stiller and quieter here than he’s ever been. He’s haunted. And he plays his age (“I don’t think of him that way! He’s old!” says Natalie, discussing Bingham)."
15/01/2010
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The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
"There are different ways into “Up in the Air,” which can be viewed as a well-timed snapshot of an economically flailing America, appreciated as a study in terminal narcissism or dismissed as a sentimental testament to traditional coupling."
04/12/2009
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The Scotsman
Alistair Harkness
"That Clooney makes Ryan seem in any way appealing is why he's a movie star – his natural charisma makes it easy to root for Ryan despite the collateral damage he leaves in his wake. Clooney's real skill here, though, is to dig deep and show us a deeply flawed man exhibiting recognisable human behaviour. This starts to happen with the arrival of two women in his life."
15/01/2010
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The Financial Times
Nigel Andrews
"Can we ever be lonely with George Clooney? This man is becoming the dark-chocolate night of the American soul. Each time he steals through the windows of nihilism, he places a box of luxury soft-centres on the pillow. He stars in bleak thrillers such as Michael Clayton or romantic comedies with lonely-hearts twists such as the new Up in the Air and still leaves us feeling warm and cossetted. Clooney has the most dangerous quantum of pure charm since Cary Grant."
13/01/2010
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
"There's nothing too profound here, and yet it works well as a smart, light cosmopolitan comedy: it's a snack, rather than a meal, but expertly made."
14/01/2010
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The Independent
Anthony Quinn
"The film, written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner, is consistently entertaining, though it coasts through a long middle and towards the end threatens to take a nose-dive into sentimentality."
15/01/2010
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The Daily Telegraph
Sukhdev Sandhu
"Up in the Air reflects the nerviness and unwillingness that many American filmmakers, like so many other people in that country, have when tackling questions of class or fundamental reform. They opt for shoulder-shrugging, eyebrow-raised irony in place of more righteous ire."
14/01/2010
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Time Out
Dave Calhoun
"It’s a pleasure to watch an adult American comedy that tries to deal with the real world, however much of a fantasy it carves from it. But the film’s later scenes as Bingham attends the wedding of a distant sister and has to face some ground-level realities about himself and his relationships are not as convincing or edifying as they should be and his sideline in motivational speaking never rings true as a symbol of his changing attitude to life."
14/01/2010
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