TV Article In the Loop By Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty is a former senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2019. EW's editorial guidelines Published on January 7, 2010 05:00AM EST Photo: Nicola Dove Imagine a funnier, nastier West Wing and you’ve got In the Loop, a political satire about the run-up to war in the Middle East. James Gandolfini is aces as a red-meat U.S. general, but it’s Scotsman Peter Capaldi who steals the film as a Downing Street spin-meister who turns F-bombs into poetry. Stay for the deleted scenes on the EXTRAS. A- See all of this week’s reviews