100 San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle 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 full review
91 Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum The 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. Read full review
90 NPR | Bob Mondello The 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. Read full review
88 Boston Globe | Ty Burr As 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. Read full review