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5 stars out of 5 -- "UP IN THE AIR has got genuine movie star wattage working on all cylinders....Director and co-writer Jason Reitman follows up his Oscar-nominated work on JUNO with this sharp, funny, perceptive comedy that represents his most mature and personal work to date."Box Office "Boasting one of George Clooney's strongest performances, the film seems like a surefire awards contender....It seduces with some of the most darkly hilarious moments to grace the screen in years."Hollywood Reporter "This is movie-star acting of the sort no one else today can bring off. Clooney and Vera Farmiga, as Ryan's sexy counterpart in corporate travel, are great together..."Entertainment Weekly "[UP IN THE AIR] is a step forward -- both in the way it gets the very best out of actors and in its ability to make things funny without sacrificing honesty and intelligence."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 4 -- "Artfully blending a breezy, blithe spirit with a darker social satire, UP IN THE AIR has one of the year's sharpest scripts and an exceptional cast."USA Today "[T]he brilliance of the central performance is its expansiveness....[Clooney] creates a contemporary character we haven't seen before, a blithely self-ironic spirit who knows, but doesn't care, that a crucial piece of himself has gone missing."Wall Street Journal 4 stars out of 4 -- "UP IN THE AIR takes the trust people once had in their jobs and pulls out the rug. It is a film for this time."Chicago Sun-Times "One of the pleasures of UP IN THE AIR is that its actresses -- including Anna Kendrick, who plays Bingham's colleague Natalie -- share the frame with Mr. Clooney as equals, not props."New York Times "[A] smart, alert, supremely entertaining movie featuring Clooney at his suavest..."Washington Post "Jason Reitman's direction nicely translates the seductive appeal of sterile public places while letting the assured performances do much of the work." -- Grade: BA.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "UP IN THE AIR is a defining movie for these perilous times....The best and boldest American comedy of the year."Rolling Stone Included in Entertainment Weekly's "The Best Films Of The Year" -- "In UP IN THE AIR, Reitman catches the mood of a new America..."Entertainment Weekly Included in Los Angeles Times's "Best Films Of 2009" -- "[A]n extremely satisfying flight of fancy where emotion and insight, comedy and drama were always in balance."Los Angeles Times Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's "The 10 Best Movies Of 2009" -- "George Clooney does his best acting to date..."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "Witty, pertinent and moving, this is a sophisticated treat from a director who gets exponentially better with every picture."Total Film Ranked #3 in USA Today's "Top Ten Films Of 2009."USA Today 4 stars out of 5 -- "While, certainly, capable of a dark humour and moments of extraordinary bleakness, it's also commendable for another superb performance from Clooney."Uncut 5 stars out of 5 -- "[Reitman] is able to maintain that toughest of balances: the lightly profound, an unfussy, impeccably performed, romantic entertainment able to say something important about its times."Empire6.175618

5 stars out of 5 -- "UP IN THE AIR has got genuine movie star wattage working on all cylinders....Director and co-writer Jason Reitman follows up his Oscar-nominated work on JUNO with this sharp, funny, perceptive comedy that represents his most mature and personal work to date."Box Office "Boasting one of George Clooney's strongest performances, the film seems like a surefire awards contender....It seduces with some of the most darkly hilarious moments to grace the screen in years."Hollywood Reporter "This is movie-star acting of the sort no one else today can bring off. Clooney and Vera Farmiga, as Ryan's sexy counterpart in corporate travel, are great together..."Entertainment Weekly "[UP IN THE AIR] is a step forward -- both in the way it gets the very best out of actors and in its ability to make things funny without sacrificing honesty and intelligence."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 4 -- "Artfully blending a breezy, blithe spirit with a darker social satire, UP IN THE AIR has one of the year's sharpest scripts and an exceptional cast."USA Today "[T]he brilliance of the central performance is its expansiveness....[Clooney] creates a contemporary character we haven't seen before, a blithely self-ironic spirit who knows, but doesn't care, that a crucial piece of himself has gone missing."Wall Street Journal 4 stars out of 4 -- "UP IN THE AIR takes the trust people once had in their jobs and pulls out the rug. It is a film for this time."Chicago Sun-Times "One of the pleasures of UP IN THE AIR is that its actresses -- including Anna Kendrick, who plays Bingham's colleague Natalie -- share the frame with Mr. Clooney as equals, not props."New York Times "[A] smart, alert, supremely entertaining movie featuring Clooney at his suavest..."Washington Post "Jason Reitman's direction nicely translates the seductive appeal of sterile public places while letting the assured performances do much of the work." -- Grade: BA.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "UP IN THE AIR is a defining movie for these perilous times....The best and boldest American comedy of the year."Rolling Stone Included in Entertainment Weekly's "The Best Films Of The Year" -- "In UP IN THE AIR, Reitman catches the mood of a new America..."Entertainment Weekly Included in Los Angeles Times's "Best Films Of 2009" -- "[A]n extremely satisfying flight of fancy where emotion and insight, comedy and drama were always in balance."Los Angeles Times Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's "The 10 Best Movies Of 2009" -- "George Clooney does his best acting to date..."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "Witty, pertinent and moving, this is a sophisticated treat from a director who gets exponentially better with every picture."Total Film Ranked #3 in USA Today's "Top Ten Films Of 2009."USA Today 4 stars out of 5 -- "While, certainly, capable of a dark humour and moments of extraordinary bleakness, it's also commendable for another superb performance from Clooney."Uncut 5 stars out of 5 -- "[Reitman] is able to maintain that toughest of balances: the lightly profound, an unfussy, impeccably performed, romantic entertainment able to say something important about its times."Empire6.175618

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Alternative Press (3/00, p.72) - 3 out of 5 - "...the Namboos' backup playing and production burn slowly and brightly, and will give the stoned-out Bristol hip-hop fanatics what they pay good money for."CMJ (1/24/00, p.3) - "...smoke-clouded air that carries a welcom potency that has been missing from the majority of recent trip-hop dalliances."5.025784

Magnet (p.87) - "[The] personal investment ratchets up the emotional impact, making it Arab Strap's most affecting album yet."CMJ (p.4) - "Along with their brilliant post-Raincoats jangle, this is the type of stuff that would make Nick Cave's heart skip a few."5.010086

Uncut (9/02, p.111) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...captures the band's magnificent howl in its prime..."4.992507

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Rolling Stone (12/25/03, p.109) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003"Rolling Stone (4/17/03, p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...A cuddly little new wave reverie..."Uncut (6/03, p.92) - "...Gibbard's refined, feather-light vocals waft delicately over Tamborello's indie electronica, creating a wide-eyed world out of bittersweet love songs and autobiographical daydreams..."CMJ (12/29/03, p.4) - Ranked #2 in CMJ's "Top 10 of 2003"Mojo (Publisher) (5/03, p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...GIVE UP is anything but a pop oddity - it's the real thing..."4.905727

Rolling Stone (p.67) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "At 31 minutes, this set is double the film's length, so alongside score instrumentals like the twitchy trip-hop jaunt 'Sonic Armada' is nonfilm filler like 'Seven Stars,' a piano-driven countdown..."Entertainment Weekly (p.72) - "[T]heir grandiose score will make you glad that this silent film isn't silent anymore." -- Grade: AAlternative Press (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "On the gentler tracks, piano and flute create relaxed, meditative moods....For Air fans, it's a vital addition to their catalog."Magnet (p.50) - "Air matches the movie's wonder-struck tone shot for shot, the duo's stylized sense of modern-retro somehow sounding quite at home against the film's aged, crackling backdrop."Billboard (p.28) - "Victoria Legrand of Baltimore's Beach House appears on the album's most tuneful cut, 'Seven Stars'..."4.876384

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5 stars out of 5 -- "UP IN THE AIR has got genuine movie star wattage working on all cylinders....Director and co-writer Jason Reitman follows up his Oscar-nominated work on JUNO with this sharp, funny, perceptive comedy that represents his most mature and personal work to date."Box Office "Boasting one of George Clooney's strongest performances, the film seems like a surefire awards contender....It seduces with some of the most darkly hilarious moments to grace the screen in years."Hollywood Reporter "This is movie-star acting of the sort no one else today can bring off. Clooney and Vera Farmiga, as Ryan's sexy counterpart in corporate travel, are great together..."Entertainment Weekly "[UP IN THE AIR] is a step forward -- both in the way it gets the very best out of actors and in its ability to make things funny without sacrificing honesty and intelligence."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 4 -- "Artfully blending a breezy, blithe spirit with a darker social satire, UP IN THE AIR has one of the year's sharpest scripts and an exceptional cast."USA Today "One of the pleasures of UP IN THE AIR is that its actresses -- including Anna Kendrick, who plays Bingham's colleague Natalie -- share the frame with Mr. Clooney as equals, not props."New York Times "[T]he brilliance of the central performance is its expansiveness....[Clooney] creates a contemporary character we haven't seen before, a blithely self-ironic spirit who knows, but doesn't care, that a crucial piece of himself has gone missing."Wall Street Journal 4 stars out of 4 -- "UP IN THE AIR takes the trust people once had in their jobs and pulls out the rug. It is a film for this time."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] smart, alert, supremely entertaining movie featuring Clooney at his suavest..."Washington Post "Jason Reitman's direction nicely translates the seductive appeal of sterile public places while letting the assured performances do much of the work." -- Grade: BA.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "UP IN THE AIR is a defining movie for these perilous times....The best and boldest American comedy of the year."Rolling Stone Included in Entertainment Weekly's "The Best Films Of The Year" -- "In UP IN THE AIR, Reitman catches the mood of a new America..."Entertainment Weekly Included in Los Angeles Times's "Best Films Of 2009" -- "[A]n extremely satisfying flight of fancy where emotion and insight, comedy and drama were always in balance."Los Angeles Times Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's "The 10 Best Movies Of 2009" -- "George Clooney does his best acting to date..."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "Witty, pertinent and moving, this is a sophisticated treat from a director who gets exponentially better with every picture."Total Film Ranked #3 in USA Today's "Top Ten Films Of 2009."USA Today 4 stars out of 5 -- "While, certainly, capable of a dark humour and moments of extraordinary bleakness, it's also commendable for another superb performance from Clooney."Uncut 5 stars out of 5 -- "[Reitman] is able to maintain that toughest of balances: the lightly profound, an unfussy, impeccably performed, romantic entertainment able to say something important about its times."Empire4.646067

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"[W]atch the collision of emotions THE AIR I BREATHE provides -- it is enough all by itself to leave you breathless."Box Office4.249531

Spin (p.109) - "Four New Yorkers humanize slow pop songs with short-circuiting feedback..." - Grade: BEntertainment Weekly (No. 840, p.87) - "Ever wonder what Interpol would sound like with a noize guy scuzzing up their high-tension tunes?..." - Grade: B4.236462

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5 stars out of 5 -- "UP IN THE AIR has got genuine movie star wattage working on all cylinders....Director and co-writer Jason Reitman follows up his Oscar-nominated work on JUNO with this sharp, funny, perceptive comedy that represents his most mature and personal work to date."Box Office "Boasting one of George Clooney's strongest performances, the film seems like a surefire awards contender....It seduces with some of the most darkly hilarious moments to grace the screen in years."Hollywood Reporter "This is movie-star acting of the sort no one else today can bring off. Clooney and Vera Farmiga, as Ryan's sexy counterpart in corporate travel, are great together..."Entertainment Weekly "[UP IN THE AIR] is a step forward -- both in the way it gets the very best out of actors and in its ability to make things funny without sacrificing honesty and intelligence."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 4 -- "Artfully blending a breezy, blithe spirit with a darker social satire, UP IN THE AIR has one of the year's sharpest scripts and an exceptional cast."USA Today "[T]he brilliance of the central performance is its expansiveness....[Clooney] creates a contemporary character we haven't seen before, a blithely self-ironic spirit who knows, but doesn't care, that a crucial piece of himself has gone missing."Wall Street Journal 4 stars out of 4 -- "UP IN THE AIR takes the trust people once had in their jobs and pulls out the rug. It is a film for this time."Chicago Sun-Times "One of the pleasures of UP IN THE AIR is that its actresses -- including Anna Kendrick, who plays Bingham's colleague Natalie -- share the frame with Mr. Clooney as equals, not props."New York Times "[A] smart, alert, supremely entertaining movie featuring Clooney at his suavest..."Washington Post "Jason Reitman's direction nicely translates the seductive appeal of sterile public places while letting the assured performances do much of the work." -- Grade: BA.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "UP IN THE AIR is a defining movie for these perilous times....The best and boldest American comedy of the year."Rolling Stone Included in Entertainment Weekly's "The Best Films Of The Year" -- "In UP IN THE AIR, Reitman catches the mood of a new America..."Entertainment Weekly Included in Los Angeles Times's "Best Films Of 2009" -- "[A]n extremely satisfying flight of fancy where emotion and insight, comedy and drama were always in balance."Los Angeles Times Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's "The 10 Best Movies Of 2009" -- "George Clooney does his best acting to date..."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "Witty, pertinent and moving, this is a sophisticated treat from a director who gets exponentially better with every picture."Total Film Ranked #3 in USA Today's "Top Ten Films Of 2009."USA Today 4 stars out of 5 -- "While, certainly, capable of a dark humour and moments of extraordinary bleakness, it's also commendable for another superb performance from Clooney."Uncut 5 stars out of 5 -- "[Reitman] is able to maintain that toughest of balances: the lightly profound, an unfussy, impeccably performed, romantic entertainment able to say something important about its times."Empire3.881291

Spin (12/99, p.220) - 6 out of 10 - "...peppy enough to make even a college sophomore feel old....buzzsaw guitars, plaintive vocals, and driving tempos - in fact they sound almost 'exactly like' Superchunk. Not a bad thing..."Magnet (1-2/00, p.68) - "...the perfect blend of punk, raw energy and homespun pop sensibilities....with enough gusto to make the tornadoes of their home state [Kansas] seem like soft breezes....[It] will seep into your brain and you'll find yourself singing along to lyrics you won't forget."CMJ (1/10/00, p.4) - Ranked #10 in CMJ's "Top 30 Editorial Picks [for 1999] - "...[an album] filled with strong songs built on infectious, driving melodies."Melody Maker (4/11/00, p.48) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Another thrashy-guitar/harmonised-vocals US punk-pop band, but since when was that a bad thing?....[their] songs take precedence over their sneers....gorgeous..."Mojo (Publisher) (5/00, p.89) - "...Quickly surpasses all expectation with a new-found sense of pace, cleaner pop accessibility and some unashamedly Noo Wave keyboards..."NME (Magazine) (2/26/00, p.37) - 7 out of 10 - "...an opus of buzzing popcore, heartfelt vocals and confessions....Their hearts might be on their sleeves, but The Get Up Kids' tailoring is 'sumptuous'."Record Collector (magazine) (p.95) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's music as catharsis -- pure, visceral and honest, just as music should be."3.825078

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Rolling Stone (11/12/98, pp.113-114) - "...a look back and a dream forward from the greatest rock-ballad band that ever existed....Buck and Mills have orchestrated their rock as never before. Losing Berry has allowed R.E.M. to literally think outside the rock box..."Spin (1/99, p.91) - Ranked #15 on Spin's list of "Top 20 Albums of '98."Spin (12/98, p.176) - 8 (out of 10) - "...UP floats away from R.E.M.'s past moorings in weighty, enigmatic symbolism....UP's lushly arranged tunes show off Stipe at his most, er, beautiful; narcissistic retreat into private space, a self-indulgence for some celebs, is a necessity for him..."Entertainment Weekly (10/30/98, p.114) - "...UP is the sound of the band trying to reshape its sound and vision. Their solution is to focus on mid-tempo, or often no-tempo, hymns and ballads. The shift suits them..."- Rating: A-Q (12/98, p.112) - - Stars (out of 5) - "...R.E.M.'s great knack is to make everything they play sound organic....Up's bashfulness brings with it a peculiar grace....there is a market for warped, experimental rock music as beautiful as this..."3.527154

"Winsome, touching and arguably the funniest Pixar effort ever, the gorgeously rendered, high-flying adventure is a tidy 90-minute distillation of all the signature touches that came before it."Hollywood Reporter 5 stars out of 5 -- "Breakneck speedy, hysterically funny and appropriately lithe, UP handles itself in action with the same intensity as with comedy..."Box Office 4 stars out of 4 -- "Adventure comes in many forms and can happen at any stage of life. Disney/Pixar's UP conveys that message through an artful blend of exhilaration and poignancy."USA Today "UP is the purest pleasure....Rarely has any film, let alone an animated one powered by the logic of dream and fantasy, been able to move so successfully -- and so effortlessly -- through so many different kinds of cinematic territory."Los Angeles Times "In its opening stretch the new Pixar movie UP flies high, borne aloft by a sense of creative flight and a flawlessly realized love story."New York Times "[A] soaring, touching, funny and altogether buoyant movie that lives up to its title in spirit and form."Washington Post "UP is challenging, emotionally and narratively, but it trusts viewers to keep up; Pixar has never been interested in talking down to children or their parents..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club 4 stars out of 4 -- "UP is a wonderful film....This is another masterwork from Pixar, which is leading the charge in modern animation."Chicago Sun-Times Included in Entertainment Weekly's "The Best Films Of The Year" -- "[A] marvelous, moving, funny, and all-in-all beautiful modern animated classic..."Entertainment Weekly Included in Chicago Sun-Times's "The Ten Best Animated Films Of 2009" -- "[The film] has a meaningful undertone, and opens with extraordinary sequence..."Chicago Sun-Times Ranked #5 in Rolling Stone's "The 10 Best Movies Of 2009" -- "Pixar's animation magic is invariably irresistible..."Rolling Stone Ranked #2 in USA Today's "Top Ten Films Of 2009."USA Today 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] surreal, sweet-natured comedy about a cranky old man, a flying house and some talking dogs."Uncut 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he light-as-air, gentle sway of emotion in UP lifts Pixar to glorious heights."Total Film3.517938

Rolling Stone (12/25/03, p.109) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003"Rolling Stone (4/17/03, p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...A cuddly little new wave reverie..."Uncut (6/03, p.92) - "...Gibbard's refined, feather-light vocals waft delicately over Tamborello's indie electronica, creating a wide-eyed world out of bittersweet love songs and autobiographical daydreams..."CMJ (12/29/03, p.4) - Ranked #2 in CMJ's "Top 10 of 2003"Mojo (Publisher) (5/03, p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...GIVE UP is anything but a pop oddity - it's the real thing..."3.511584

JazzTimes (10/96, p.87) - "...Blessed with a swinging, sophisticated touch....an engaging mainstream date..."3.507087