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Review: “Up in the Air” (2009)

Monday, January 4, 2010

Like “Juno” and “Thank You for Smoking” before it, Jason Reitman’s third film “Up in the Air” is a light, surefooted comedy rooted in moments of genuine heart. Like Juno MacGuff and Nick Naylor before him, Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), the film’s protagonist, lives a lonely and somewhat troubled existence before he’s able, by uniting [...]

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Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

Monday, November 9, 2009

“The Men Who Stare at Goats” is a fatuous, if harmless farce, one that, while it is vaguely likeable, is far from interesting. The first half―meandering and overly expository― does little to legitimize the unconventional story and even less to set the foundations for the painfully anticlimactic scenes that follow it; not sincere enough to [...]

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