What grade did the Onion 's A.V. Club give Looper ?
Dana Stevens of " Slate " gave the film a mixed review , writing , "" Looper " felt to me like a maddening near - miss : It posits an impossible but fascinating - to - imagine relationship – a face - to - face encounter between one 's present and future self , in which each self must account for its betrayal of the other – and then throws away nearly all the dramatic potential that relationship offers .