I'd heard good things about Looper from a few different people, all of whom were pretty tough critics on movies. Directed by and written by Rian Johnson, this 2012 science-fiction/action story starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt was praised for being very smartly constructed and tightly put together. I'd never heard of it (or its director either) prior to Rian Johnson's infamously controversial, fanbase-shattering The Last Jedi, but after having seen and

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Oh, Rian Johnson. Love him or hate him, he's been a polarizing figure ever since the release of The Last Jedi. And, while I have no wish to get bogged down in a big long debate about the merits or lack thereof in his contribution to the Star Wars universe, I was both curious and cautious in equal measure to hear the news of his next big movie project: a murder mystery in the vein of the old Agatha Christie novels, with a gentleman detective, a great big house and a whole cast of

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