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4/4
Loopy Looper
Jacob Zembower - wrote on 09/28/12
After a disappointing summer for movies it seems the studios have saved the best for last. With The Master and Lawless and now Looper, things are finally kicking up. I didn't know much about this film going in, other than the fact that it was directed by Rian Johnson and starred Joseph Gordon Levitt under off-putting latex makeup. BUT WOW! This turned out to be the biggest surprise of the year so far. Filled with twists, exhilarating action and storytelling, while also oozing with style. Looper is a fantastic, bloody, time traveling, scifi, near-masterpiece. For sheer though provoking thrills, it's the Inception of 2012 (though the two films are entirely different.) It's great to see such a fresh, original, and dizzying mainstream release, and I look forward to seeing it again.
