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100The language is brilliant, and the laugh lines come so quickly that you'd probably have to watch the movie twice to get them all.
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100Hands down the funniest movie I've seen all year and also the smartest.
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91The 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.
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91In The Loop floats above its chaotic world on wave after wave of beautifully profane dialogue.
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90The performances are explosively funny, from Hollander's increasingly bewildered and way-out-of-his-depth Simon to Chris Addison's hapless PR fledgling. But the star is Peter Capaldi.
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90Zooming 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.
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90Not 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.
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90A sharply written, fast-talking, almost dementedly articulate satire on modern statecraft.
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90Britain'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.
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90Intelligent political satire this expertly acted is nothing to sneeze at.
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90Tremendous fun at times, especially in its vicious power plays and betrayals. But it has no redeeming value beyond entertainment.
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88Laugh 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.
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88While director Armando Iannucci's brand of satire -- just plausible enough to be painful -- isn't for all tastes, it's a little bit of heaven to hear screen characters spew such eloquently vicious bile.
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88The movie is absolutely hilarious, a satire as brisk and fleet as a farce and as profane as a convention of Tony Montana impersonators.
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88In the Loop is certainly the smartest and funniest movie inspired by the Iraq war.
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88As 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.
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88Dancing 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.
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83One of those should-I-laugh-or-cry satires.
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80Painfully funny satire of British and American bureaucrats in the days leading up to the Iraq War.
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80One of the sharpest satires in years.
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80Generous with its humor and spares no sacred cows, especially when it comes to the American political system.
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In the Loop is no precious show dog. It's a snarling, frothing little beastie straining at its leash.
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78Deliciously bleak, black political satire from British director Armando Iannucci.
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75A scabrously funny look at the cutthroat game of statecraft.
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75The best satire implicates the audience; this stuff keeps our sense of superiority smugly intact.
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75It's also a British comedy, with that singularly British way of being clever and deliriously juvenile all at once, a combination that makes for scathing, laugh-out-loud, big-screen satire.
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75It's often obscenely funny, but it tickles more than it stings.
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70In the Loop is clever and lively, but it isn't sharp or nasty enough to cut very deep; at best it's just a peppery trifle.
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It's the hilarious tumble of words--the sly cultural references, astonishingly creative invective, the veritable arias of profanity--that gives the film an unexpected heft.
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63Drawing upon "Wag the Dog," "Dr. Strangelove" and "This Is Spinal Tap," this sardonic tale is adapted from the critically acclaimed BBC series "The Thick of It."
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50By the end of the film, you just want to get away from these people.
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10anyone who likes to indulge in the lighter side of politics will LOVE this movie. those giving bad reviews are simply too thick to understand!
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