Goddamnit, Clooney! Two weeks in a row with the lead Film Sweat pick. Up In The Air is the Jason Reitman-directed drama about a man afraid to love, adapted from the Walter Kirn book of the same name. It is either a metaphor for Great Recession-era America, a secret weeper for the modern world, or both. Damn you, Clooney!

ALSO NEW IN THEATERS THIS WEEK: Everybody’s Fine, starring Robert DeNiro in a home-for-the-holidays weeper that you could pretty much write yourself just from seeing the first 15 seconds of the preview; Armored, high-octane heist pic with Laurence Fishburne, Skeet Ulrich and Matt Dillon;
Transylmania, a spoof of the vampire craze that may be even dumber than the craze itself; and Brothers, a present-day military megabummer starring Jake Gylenhaal, Tobey McGuire and Natlie Portman.

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This entry was posted on Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 5:09 pm.