- Starring: Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Garret Dillahunt, Jeff Daniels, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Noah Segan, Paul Dano, Piper Perabo
- Summary: A killer who works for the mob of the future recognizes one of his targets as his future self.
- Director: Rian Johnson
- Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi
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Positive: 8 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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100The best sci-fi movie since "Moon." The best time-travel yarn since "12 Monkeys." And one of the best films of 2012. You'll immediately want to see it again.
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100Director Rian Johnson's resulting film, a cornfield neo-noir, is the coolest, most-confident sci-fi flick since 2006's "Children of Men."
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100Intelligent science-fiction sometimes seems an endangered species - too much physics and there's a risk of creating something cold and remote, too many explosions and get lost in the multiplex. Looper isn't perfect, but it pulls off the full Wizard Of Oz: it has a brain, courage and a heart.
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