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Renee Gasch


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Reitman's latest a reassuring accomplishment

It's always a pleasure to watch a Hollywood film that doesn't try to beat the viewer upside the head with 3-D explosions or overwhelm with more cuts than the viewer's mind knows what to do with. However, it's always a displeasure to watch a Hollywood film that flaunts an inflated sense of its own cuteness. The second of these two unwritten laws is what made director Jason Reitman's last film, ""Juno,"" so unapologetically dreadful: That movie was 95% prefab swagger and 5% self-congratulation. My intensely negative response to ""Juno"" is partly responsible for my comparatively positive response to Reitman's latest, the highly acclaimed ""Up in the Air.""

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