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Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies: Every movie that clearly tells us how we marched toward the war, through bullying, intimidation, and making opponents seem crazy is worth seeing. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The film plays as if flaming chunks of The Office crash-landed simultaneously onto the sets of Yes, Minister and The West Wing. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: While In the Loop is a highly disciplined inquiry into a very serious subject, it is also, line by filthy line, scene by chaotic scene, by far the funniest big-screen satire in recent memory. Read more
Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal: In the Loop is a confusingly plotted satire -- plan on being out of the loop -- that starts off at such a frantic pace and at so high a pitch that it really doesn't have anywhere to go. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Political satire is a rare bird at the cinema, so fans of the genre should watch and savor Armando Iannucci's In the Loop -- a rapid-fire, profane celebration of the art (and artlessness) of spin. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: A mercilessly funny film that, beneath the laughs, chillingly falls on the believable side of how politics really gets done. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: 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. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: [It's] that rare film utterly without heroes; instead, it amasses a group of boobs, users, and charlatans on both sides of the Atlantic and asks us to recognize our duly elected and appointed officials. You'll laugh until you bleed, or vice versa. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: There isn't an actor in this film, not even a walk on, who isn't perfection. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Filled with the sort of pent-up vitriolic humor that Brits specialize in, it's one of those films that keep you laughing even as you realize how awfully close to the truth it likely is. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Consider the movie an offspring of the great 1980s BBC screwball political comedy series Yes Minister. And consider it a welcome oasis of script literacy in a summer of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Read more
Michael Ordona, Los Angeles Times: A very effective, verbally blood-stained portrait of how a little brazen scheming on one side, coupled with selfishness and failure of nerve on the other, can actually change the world. Read more
Robert Wilonsky, L.A. Weekly: This deliriously foul-mouthed political satire is set sometime between 2002 and the day after tomorrow; hard to say, given that the country with which U.S. and U.K. pols want to go to war is unnamed save for its location in, you know, the Middle East. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: This is the funniest movie of the summer. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: By the end of the film, you just want to get away from these people. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A wonderfully nasty British satire that examines the intricacies of international politics -- and laughs, bitterly. Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR.org: Blistering satire ... scabrous laughs. And it's so easy to imagine that this really is how governments make earth-shaking decisions. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: One of the sharpest satires in years. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: In the Loop is certainly the smartest and funniest movie inspired by the Iraq war. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: A scabrously funny look at the cutthroat game of statecraft. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: 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 more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The jagged rhythms of the movie's dialogue are entertaining in themselves, and it's fun to watch the actors keep their lines spinning and bouncing off each other. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: 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 more
Dana Stevens, Slate: The first successful satire inspired by the Iraq war comes not from the country that started it, but from the sceptered isle that was our most important ally. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: In the Loop is one of the best political comedies since the invention of the sprocket hole. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It's often obscenely funny, but it tickles more than it stings. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: 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. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: 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. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: It's a film that is both insanely funny and a desperate cry for sanity. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: If you can get past its relentless quality, In the Loop is a blisteringly funny skewering of the venal side of politics. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Though hilarious, In the Loop is also a horror movie, its lacerating satire constantly reminding us of the all-too-real consequences of distorted, manipulated, and vitiated language. Read more
Philip Kennicott, Washington Post: Film should do more than television. In the Loop is tremendous fun at times, especially in its vicious power plays and betrayals. Read more