Where 'Up in the Air' soars is in the way it captures Ryan's rhythm, the elegant precision of his comforting ritual, the smooth familiarity of his life-in-transition existence.

| Oct 6, 2023

A painful, intelligent, and darkly comic drama that will affect you regardless of how you choose to interpret it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 28, 2023

Clooney's portrayal if this terminal man is exemplary on every count. He is a man of and for our times. So too is this year's finest movie.

| Mar 22, 2021

There are large chunks of the screenplay that feel like a black comedy waiting to break out, but Cody is too self-aware to carry that all the way and Reitman is far too determined to really say something you guys to let that aspect loose.

| Feb 10, 2021

Up in the Air is as slick and polished as its protagonist... Yet whereas the closer you look at Clooney's Ryan the more you uncover his moral vacancy, when you dig more deeply into the film itself you discover its heart.

| Nov 30, 2020

Manages an upbeat tone and entertaining outlook, even as it falls victim to standard romantic comedy clichés.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 29, 2020

I love this movie. It is so well written

| Sep 29, 2020

Easily one of 2009's best films.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

...Up in the Air is still a beautifully written film with a trio of powerhouse performances.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 6, 2020

Up in the Air fails because Reitman crams too many stories and situations into one picture.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2019

The film itself is such an essential historical product of our time that it's hard to root against it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 7, 2019

Jason Reitman raises the bar with a beautifully crafted film that is smart, topical, funny and just a little bittersweet. It's a perfect mix for a film that proves to be the very best of 2009.

| Original Score: A | May 11, 2019

Up in the Air makes a sharp case that even the most shallow-seeming have a deep need for connection and love.

| Oct 8, 2018

We always know just where this film is going... . But as co-written and directed by Jason Reitman, the plot's twists are so delicious and the dialogue so inventively perfect it doesn't matter a jot.

| Aug 30, 2018

A slick, cute, diverting, superbly-acted film but also an empty one due to the picture's raison d'être: a one-trick pony concerned solely with lack of commitment.

| Jan 16, 2018

Up in the Air is sentimental, but that doesn't mean it's simplistic. In fact, the movie plays at some interesting contradictions. It is a genuinely funny movie about genuinely depressing times.

| Sep 18, 2017

At the end of the day, Up In The Air makes us think about the importance of having someone to come home to and how we define ourselves on the job.

| Original Score: A | Sep 12, 2017

The Jason Reitman-directed Up In The Air (an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Walter Kim) actually engaged me from start to finish, and dare I say, moved me.

| Aug 15, 2017

Even though the film finally turns out to be yet another Hollywood fairy tale, at least it speaks the truth about our Great Recession.

| Oct 7, 2015

vibrantly witty and exceptionally delivered

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 11, 2015