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9 P.M. (Showtime) IN THE LOOP (2009) While giving an interview to the BBC, the British minister of international development (Tom Hollander) departs from the official line and becomes the focus of tensions between the governments of Britain and the United States as they gear up to invade a Middle Eastern country. And then, given a chance to backtrack, he digs himself in deeper. Peter Capaldi plays the British press officer in charge of controlling the spin. James Gandolfini is a dovish Pentagon general. Writing in The New York Times, A. O. Scott said, “The genius of ‘In the Loop,’ directed by Armando Iannucci and written by a crack team of British wits, is that it turns this mountain into a series of festering molehills.” He added that while the film is “a highly disciplined inquiry into a very serious subject, it is also, line by filthy line, scene by chaotic scene, by far the funniest big-screen satire in recent memory.”

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