What grade did the Onion 's A.V. Club give Looper ?
" Richard Corliss of " Time " magazine gave the film a positive review , calling " Looper " a " hybrid , mashing Quentin Tarantino and Philip K. Dick into a species of pulp science fiction " and also writing , " A fanciful film with the patina of hyper-realism , " Looper " is well served by actors who behave not as if they were dropped carelessly into the future but spent their whole desperate lives there . "