2009: Up in the Air

George Clooney, radiating his usual charisma, plays a not very realistic outplacement specialist whose passion for living on plaes, in airports and hotels is threatened when a college graduate (the very funny Anna Kendrick) is hired by his firm and suggests that hencetoforth all firing is done via video conferences. After a pacey first hour, the film turns into a standard RomCom between, roughly, minutes 60 and 90, only to redeem itself in the end. Those 30 minutes make the film poorer than it could have been, but, on the upside, much of it is set inside airports and planes, which I just happen to like. A classic 7.