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BUST A MOVE

January 6, 2010 by Tim Riley

up in the air still
Was it uplifting or depressing to see Young MC take down Up In the Air‘s cheezy corporate splash? Nelson George called it “the highlight,” but I thought the one-hit wonder looked like Andre Braugher.

This gets reviewed as a yuppie comeuppance, but its generational gags shoot the curl. When Anna Kendrick blurts out her appreciation for early feminism while cracking up, you want to hug her and enroll her into history of western civ…
 

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