Jason Reitman
TIFF 2013 | Labor Day (Jason Reitman, US)—Special Presentation
By Jay Kuehner | 09/11/2013 | Cinema Scope Online, TIFF 2013
By Jay Kuehner Too much sugar ruins the pie! Jason Reitman’s shamelessly saccharine adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s novel could not have resisted such a bromide, as it was baked into the dough. But the earnestness with which certain hackneyed narrative flashpoints are so handily realized turns whatever latent drama the film might have possessed into…
Read More → Kinda Like a Movie: Jason Reitman’s Young Adult
By Adam Nayman | 12/16/2011 | Cinema Scope Online
By Adam Nayman In his review of Jason Reitman’s Young Adult, J. Hoberman informs us that its protagonist, 37-year-old hack writer Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), “packs up and drives back to [her hometown of] Mercury, Minnesota, while playing a vintage mix tape heavy on The Replacements.” This is incorrect: the song that Mavis keeps blasting…
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