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...most nuanced performance of his career. He gets inside Ryan because, in a way, he already lives there: he too is a traveling man with an aversion to commitment. Clooney has always ridden high on the confidence that people will buy anything he pitches--even a savory comedy-drama with a tart undertaste. Odds are that the great salesman's work in Up in the Air will create, among audiences and Oscar voters alike, a lot of satisfied customers...
...best when describing the fall of Lehman. It's the key battle, in a sense, since Lehman was a major force behind the subprime-mortgage bonds that were the culprits in the collapse. Gasparino is particularly good at capturing--via the profane, telling quote--the high-noon drama of the meltdown. When Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack tells Lehman boss Dick Fuld, "There are rumors that you guys are in trouble," Fuld, the "Gorilla of Wall Street," answers with tough-guy bravado, "It's bullshit." Lehman's stock price was soon in free fall...
...Moon had not existed - well, many young hearts would be broken, but also, the big news would have been the $34.5 million racked up by the true-life inspirational sports drama The Blind Side. Based on another book (Michael Lewis's bio of Michael Oher, a troubled black youth, adopted by a white couple, who became a college football star and NFL rookie), The Blind Side would have won the box-office race almost any other fall weekend, and gave Sandra Bullock the biggest opening of her career. Also impressive was the $11 million amassed by the African-American drama...
...grave, Hancock—who directed “The Rookie,” another compelling underdog story, in 2002—seems to understand that there is inherent humor in the uncomfortable melding of seismically different socio-economic backgrounds, and he never stops effectively exploiting these moments of drama as simultaneous opportunities for humor. “Who’d have thought we’d have a black son before we knew a democrat?” remarks Leigh Anne’s understanding husband, Sean, played by sometime actor Tim McGraw...
...flat. But this is a minor blip on the face of a memorable force of a film—one that captures emotion without theatricality, humor without insult, and hardship without self-pity. “The Messenger” delivers not just a war movie, but a moving drama in its own right...