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Director
Armando Iannucci
Cast
Peter Capaldi,
Tom Hollander,
Gina McKee,
James Gandolfini,
Chris Addison,
Anna Chlumsky
Genre
Comedy
Both the U.S. President and the U.K. Prime Minister want to go to war in the Middle East. The British Minister for International Development, Simon Foster, has made two comments on television emboldening both sides of the pro/anti-war lobbies, leading to a myriad of political maneuverings, truth-bending, and personal hijinx.
This is an incredibly funny and dark satire. I've never seen better use of swearing. The dialogue makes this movie fun to watch even though its view of politics is really bleak. The movie does a genuinely good job of showing political dysfunction and warmongering while staying very entertaining throughout.
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
Hands down the funniest movie I've seen all year and also the smartest.
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
The language is brilliant, and the laugh lines come so quickly that you'd probably have to watch the movie twice to get them all.
The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps
In The Loop floats above its chaotic world on wave after wave of beautifully profane dialogue.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
The chattering smarty-pants who ran the U.S. government on "The West Wing" are slow talkers compared with the motormouthed and hilariously imperfect power elite in the brainy British comedy In the Loop.
L.A. Weekly
Zooming back and forth between London and D.C., In the Loop hasn't any real plot -- it plays like a rather brilliant Brit-com stretched over 100 minutes, a collection of anecdotes and incidents.
Village Voice by Melissa Anderson
Not to detract from the pleasure of watching the consistently excellent actors, who enhance the dialogue's bite with their body language, but the script of In the Loop is so rich that it could work as a radio play.
Variety by Dennis Harvey
Intelligent political satire this expertly acted is nothing to sneeze at.
Slate by Dana Stevens
Britain's diplomatic corps may be as clueless and impotent as In the Loop suggests, but British comedians are fully capable of taking over the world.
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
A sharply written, fast-talking, almost dementedly articulate satire on modern statecraft.
Washington Post by Philip Kennicott
Tremendous fun at times, especially in its vicious power plays and betrayals. But it has no redeeming value beyond entertainment.
L.A. Weekly by Robert Wilonsky
Zooming back and forth between London and D.C., In the Loop hasn't any real plot -- it plays like a rather brilliant Brit-com stretched over 100 minutes, a collection of anecdotes and incidents.
Boston Globe by Ty Burr
As a ranking cabinet minister in the brutally funny political satire In the Loop, actor Peter Capaldi unfurls dazzling verbal ribbons of the foulest language imaginable, thunderbolts of vulgarity that carry the force of precision carpet-bombing.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Laugh you will, loud and often. In the Loop deserves to be a sleeper hit. The whole cast is stellar. And it proves that smart and funny can exist in the same movie, even in summer.
Film Threat
Generous with its humor and spares no sacred cows, especially when it comes to the American political system.
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
Painfully funny satire of British and American bureaucrats in the days leading up to the Iraq War.
The New Yorker by Anthony Lane
By the end of the film, you just want to get away from these people.
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