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"  Imagine a screenplay steeped in obscenities. Not exactly ahead of the times, eh? How about a screenplay deliciously dripping with bon mots you may have heard before but never quite like this\u2014strung together so craftily into original turns of dirty phrase, so casually caustic on nearly every page, they make Tony Soprano&amp;#039;s angriest rants look like Buddhist prayers. Then imagine that laced throughout all that shock value is a brilliantly clever satire of America and Britain&amp;#039;s concurrent decision to enter the Iraq War, and that a juicy chunk of the foul freakouts are delivered by Tony Soprano himself (James Gandolfini, that is). In the Loop, directed by British TV&amp;#039;s Armando Iannuci, skewers the behind-the-scenes buffoonery at both Downing Street and on Capitol Hill with equal fervor and very little, uh, tact. The film won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay last night\u2014a relatively PG Gandolfini accepted the award on Iannuci&amp;#039;s behalf\u2014and it comes out on DVD today. See it because it&amp;#039;s as hilarious as it is cynical, as smart as it is raffish, and as culturally cutting as it is purely entertaining. Or, if for no other reason, see it to learn a few dozen new words. \u2014Rachel Rosenblit        Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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