In the Loop
A political satire about a group of skeptical American and British operatives attempting to prevent a war between two countries.
5 November 1971, Cardiff, Wales, UK
25 September 1984, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
November 12, 1965 in Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK
13 November 1963, Brady, Texas, USA
12 September 1974, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3 December 1980, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 August 1967, Bristol, England, UK
September 29, 2012
Satire hasn't felt this sharp since BrassEye.
March 13, 2011
Avoid the latest Apatow/Rogen template trash and give this a go, I promise you will not be disappointed.
August 21, 2009
The film, while often very funny, is so relentlessly savage it could destroy whatever shred of respect you may still retain for politicians and that flogged horse called democracy.
October 21, 2010
The War Room has been replaced by drably decorated offices, insane army generals have been replaced by eerily sensible ones, and the man with the most power is not the POTUS but instead a PR-man with a filthy mouth.
August 20, 2009
This enormously witty satire follows a British diplomatic staff as they fly to Washington to confer with their U.S. counterparts, who are secretly ginning up an invasion of the Middle East.
August 21, 2009
Painfully funny satire of British and American bureaucrats in the days leading up to the Iraq War.
August 13, 2009
This is the funniest movie of the summer.
August 21, 2009
The brainchild of British director Armando Iannucci, it takes on the politicians at their own dirty game, daring to fictionally embellish the tawdry facts, to out-spin the spin doctors.
July 21, 2012
In the Loop has some of the most colorful language you'll find in any piece of cinema, rivaling movies like Kevin Smith's Clerks. And this is a hilarious thing.
October 21, 2009
It's fantastic stuff, so over-the-top, so scabrous, so bitterly brilliant that you have to assume that, on some level, it rings true.
October 29, 2010
There's only so much wittiness and quips we can watch before we get irritated at the fact that not much actually happens.
