an excellent, multilayered film

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2018)

Clooney is a detached but skilled corporate downsizer who makes a living by traveling around the United States and firing employees for the higher-ups who lack the spine to do it themselves. Despite a lack of personal ties, he's content with his life and unyielding philosophy, but reaches a crossroads when he meets two vastly different women: ambitious, icy Kendrick-a young hotshot who wants to "glocalize" his job, and sexy, sassy Farmiga-his female counterpart with whom he has trysts on the road. A thoughtful, well-crafted, and thoroughly engrossing story with believable characters and situations, colorful dialogue, laugh-out loud humor, and poignant life themes, made all the more provocative by three leads who are at the top of their game; a terrific all-around showing. ***