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

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

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

Prepare yourself for an hour and a half of political farce made only funnier by the fact that these ludicrous actions and explanations all feel so terrifyingly plausible.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 30, 2010

Shot in fly-on-the-wall style, In The Loop is as expertly and continuously funny as any comedy in years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 21, 2010

If you only watch a scene or two on the internet, it's hilarious. Watch it all and it's a little tiresome and unconvincing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 21, 2010

It's such a shame because here is a film with the potential of being really good if it was decently made.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 17, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 21, 2009

Painfully funny satire of British and American bureaucrats in the days leading up to the Iraq War.

Full Review | Aug 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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 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.

| Aug 20, 2009

It's often obscenely funny, but it tickles more than it stings.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2009

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.

| Original Score: B | Jul 31, 2009

A scabrously funny look at the cutthroat game of statecraft.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 30, 2009

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 30, 2009

The film plays as if flaming chunks of The Office crash-landed simultaneously onto the sets of Yes, Minister and The West Wing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 24, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2009