Downturn

Up in the Air

(2009)

Wow, a very different dynamic knowing up front about the devastating blow that is to fall (though I'm reminded now that I had encountered too many hints about that before I saw the film the first time). Doesn't make it a lesser movie, necessarily, just a very different one--perhaps one where you can't credit Ryan's bravado quite as much from the start. Still powerful in many ways, not least in its sympathetic look into hard times that are still with us.