Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Melanie Lynskey, Amy Morton
Rating: 2.5/4 stars
Every year at Oscar time, Hollywood trots out that years 'smart movie.' In an effort to tell the world that Hollywood isn't all about hot bodies and blowing things up. Sometimes these movies are fantastic, and sometimes they are just too smart for their own good. Like 'smart' movies from the past few years such as Sideways and Adaptation, Up in The Air is very good, but, it knows it is. There's something about a movie that thinks it is smarter than it's audience that makes it hard for me to love.
Clooney is fantastic. He gives probably the best performance of his career, and reminded me that he is a bona fide silver fox. Vera Farmiga also turns in a wonderfully understated performance, simply being, not acting. Anna Kendrick, while I liked her character alot, I disagreed with almost every choice she made, there was no heart in her character, only surface. A whiney brat one moment, and a cold bitch the next, with nothing tying the two together. It was a performance so uneven that I am baffled at her impending Oscar nomination. I liked this movie, but it's not as amazing as Hollywood would have you believe.
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