UP IN THE AIR (15)
DIRECTED by Jason Reitman, whose last film was the universally adored Juno, this portrait of a loveless man, who earns his living by flying around America and making total strangers redundant, hardly sounds like cause for merriment.
However, Reitman elegantly navigates a path between the bleak and the wryly amusing, helped in no small part by a charming lead performance from George Clooney.
Up In The Air should secure Clooney another Oscar nomination as Best Actor, if not the actual statuette, for his mesmerising portrayal of a corporate middleman, who loathes the prospect of standing still.
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