Looper (2012)

Director/writer Rian Johnson (Brick) doesn’t want to think too much about the technical details of time travel. Although his latest film, Looper, wholly depends on the device for both plot and character, Johnson dismisses any investigation into the logic of his construct as “drawing diagrams with straws." Consequently, where there should arise questions of free will and determinism are only dull, long-winded explanations provided by voiceover narration and snarky, hipster dialog thinly disguised as irony designed to put on the kibosh. By cheekily railing against the “show, don’t tell” edict of storytelling, Johnson may have done the metaphorical equivalent of shooting himself in the foot with his movie’s most ubiquitous object—the clumsy but powerful blunderbuss. Read the full review on About.com.