The life of Ryan, a young courageous man, who works for a well known agency and fires people, has been changed completely by the arrival of a new worker, who is so beautiful and smart, the thing that challenges him the most.
This is a likable film, with likable actors and a breezy, pleasant pace. If you're not paying close attention, you'd almost miss that this film is a crock. But it is. It's an elegant con.
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.
Jason Reitman's dry, moving "comedy," based on the Walter Kirn novel, is a sly indictment of Corporate America, Marketing America and Frequent Flying America.
From taxi to touchdown, Reitman knows how to get us to the next destination.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 10, 2009
Now arriving at the main terminal is the movie of the year.
The Patriot Ledger
May 26, 2013
One of the warmest and most entertaining films of this or any year, which is saying something considering it's about a man who fires people for a living.
