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In the Loop

2009

Armando Iannucci

Chris Addison, Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, Anna Chlumsky ...

6.5

9,793

Comedy The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. But, after British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster, accidentally backs military action on TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington, DC. If Simon can get in with the right DC people, if his entourage of one can sleep with the right intern, and if they can both stop the Prime Minister's spin-doctor ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"The pic will delight fans of acerbic contempo Brit humor (...) Intelligent political satire this expertly acted is nothing to sneeze at"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"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 (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The acting is superb, and the writing is relentlessly funny - vicious and delicious. And refreshingly, there isn't a sympathetic character in sight (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Scathingly funny (...) A smart, sophisticated comedy"	POS
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"'In the Loop', like a lot of Iannucci’s work, is technically brilliant, but fatally flawed by the extent to which it is fascinated by (...) the culture that it purports to abhor (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"You laugh mightily at the British political satire 'In the Loop' (...) But those laughs catch in the throat. This is fiction, of course, yet you do worry: What if this is close to what really happened?"	POS
United Kingdom	Nev Pierce Empire	"An endlessly quotable, worryingly authentic exploration of how things get done (...) Politically astute, hilarious and terrifyingly real (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Adam Keleman Slant	"Balancing a crazed jigsaw of dozens of characters, director Iannucci creates a startling indictment of war-mongering officials (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"Leave it to the British to raise invective to a high art (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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