In the Loop Critic Reviews
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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.Read the full review
In The Loop floats above its chaotic world on wave after wave of beautifully profane dialogue.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
A sharply written, fast-talking, almost dementedly articulate satire on modern statecraft.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Intelligent political satire this expertly acted is nothing to sneeze at.Read the full review
Tremendous fun at times, especially in its vicious power plays and betrayals. But it has no redeeming value beyond entertainment.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Dancing along a line just shy of the edge of brilliance, In the Loop possesses an incisive, take-no-prisoners comedic style that offers plenty of solid laughs while making a point about the stupidity, selfishness, and lack of awareness that exists within the highest echelons of government.Read the full review
