A durable, smartly-written assemblage of highly quotable material that will continue to be funny no matter how many times you see it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 4, 2023

A vicious satire with ice in its veins and poison in its fangs.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 10, 2022

For all those still seething over the cynical manipulation and mendacity behind Bush and Blair's rush to war in Iraq, Armando Iannucci's blistering political satire In the Loop offers a measure of catharsis.

| Nov 24, 2020

Hilarious political satire has very strong language.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2020

This almost unconscionably hilarious black satire imagining the behind-the-scene mishaps leading up to the Iraqi invasion plays like a latter-day Dr. Strangelove.

| Jun 18, 2020

Possessing boundless cynicism, this caustic satire might not be for everyone but not a single performer's comic timing is off.

| Feb 14, 2020

Not only is In the Loop one of the funniest things you'll see this year, but it's also one of the most intelligent pieces of British satire for some time.

| Oct 29, 2019

A wicked, mean-spirited comedy filled with nasty people...I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2019

Finally, fa-HINE-ally, someone has made a proper comedy. Armando Iannucci, to be exact, with In the Loop, his annihilating satire of recent Anglo-American misadventures in the Middle East.

| Oct 26, 2018

You probably wouldn't want to spend three hours listening to Alan Partridge's drive-time radio broadcast, but this idiotic DJ delivers a solid 90 minutes of cinematic entertainment.

| Oct 24, 2018

The performances are outstanding, and there are many laugh-out-loud moments as confirmed by the fact that I laughed out loud.

| Aug 29, 2018

This alleged satire, which received four-star treatment from other critics, left me with a ho-hum and sorry feeling that I had wasted an evening seeing it.

| Jan 17, 2018

Some have found In the Loop shallow for detaching its fevered gamesmanship from actual reasoning or consequences -- but isn't it rather chilling, how easy it is for the loop to form in a vacuum?

| May 17, 2016

Satire hasn't felt this sharp since BrassEye.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Avoid the latest Apatow/Rogen template trash and give this a go, I promise you will not be disappointed.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 13, 2011

There's only so much wittiness and quips we can watch before we get irritated at the fact that not much actually happens.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 29, 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.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 21, 2010