LOOPER

In the futuristic action thriller LOOPER, time travel will be invented - but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" - a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good... until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination.

"'Looper' weaves between past and present in a way that gives Johnson and his actors opportunities to create a surprisingly involving narrative...You have to grin at the ingenuity of Johnson's screenplay." -Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"Thrilling in its deft juggling of complex narrative elements, utterly clear in its presentation, and unfolding with what feels like serious moral purpose." -Andrew Schenker, The Village Voice

"Looper is a remarkable feat of imagination and execution, entertaining from start to finish, even as it asks the audience to contemplate how and why humanity keeps making the same rotten mistakes." -Noel Murray, The A.V. Club