Question: Why did Peter Debruge believe that Looper was a good film?
About the article "Looper (film)", section "Toronto International Film Festival".

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James Mottram of "Total Film" gave "Looper" 5 stars out of 5, concluding that it was "the best sci-fi movie since "Moon".
The best time-travel yarn since "12 Monkeys".
And one of the best films of 2012.
"Todd McCarthy of "The Hollywood Reporter" gave the film a positive review, calling it "an engaging, neatly worked-out time-travel sci-fi thriller", but also criticizing the effects involved in making Gordon-Levitt resemble Willis: "At first, the effect is a bit odd, and you can't quite put your finger on what's off; then it feels downright weird to be looking at a version of Gordon-Levitt who is no longer the actor you've known for a few years now.
"Peter Debruge of "Variety" also gave the film a positive review, writing that writer-director Johnson's "grandly conceived, impressively mounted third feature shows a giddy, geeky interest in science-fiction, then forces it into the back seat and lets the multidimensional characters drive.
In a genre infamous for loose ends, this thinking man's thriller marshals action, romance and a dose of very dark comedy toward a stunning payoff."
"Mud" premiered on , 2012 at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where it had a competition slot for the festival's prizes including the Palme d'Or.
Reuters reported that the film " warm applause at a press screening".
"Variety"s film critics Justin Chang and Peter Debruge considered "Mud" one of their favorites of the film festival.
Debruge said the film was reminiscent of the novel "Huckleberry Finn": "It so elegantly addresses what masculinity and family really mean in the heartland."
He said the Mississippi River in "Mud" was "a mythic backdrop... in which old values struggle against stronger modern forces in the world".
British film critic Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, stating that ""Mud" is an engaging and good-looking picture with two bright leading performances".
After its Cannes premiere, no distributor immediately purchased rights to release the film in the United States.
By August 2012, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions acquired rights to distribute "Mud" in the United States.
In January 2013, "Mud" screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and the "Austin American-Statesman" reported, "His modern take on Mark Twain played to an enthusiastic sold-out crowd of more than 500 people.
"The film opened in limited release on , 2013, before expanding on , 2013. 
"Sound of My Voice" was named among the Top Indie Films at Festivals in 2011 on IndieWire's criticWIRE.
Manohla Dargis wrote in her review in the "New York Times": "Nobody is gutted in "Sound of My Voice", a smart, effectively unsettling movie about the need to believe and the hard, cruel arts of persuasion.
But over time the men and women who meet in a mysterious house in an anonymous Los Angeles neighborhood – where they shed their clothes and cleanse their bodies in a ritual – are opened up bit by bit, wound by wound, until they’re sobbing and laughing, their insides smeared across the carpet.
"In September 2012, the film won the "Octopus d’Or" for the best international feature film at the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival.
In his round-up of 2012's cinematic standouts, "Variety" film critic Peter Debruge admitted to having watched "Sound of My Voice" four times and called it an "ingenious low-budget puzzler."
DMG Entertainment began as an advertising agency that was founded by Dan Mintz, Peter Xiao, and Wu Bing.
In the late 2000s, DMG began distribution of non-Chinese films in Chinese theaters, including "Twilight" and "Knowing".
Film production was added to DMG's portfolio in 2009, and its first production was "The Founding of a Republic" (2009).
DMG also contributed to the productions of "Looper" (2012) and "Iron Man 3" (2013) and distributed the films in theaters in China.
DMG became involved with "Looper" as Endgame Entertainment's Chinese partner.
After the companies closed the deal in January 2011, changes to film production included casting Chinese actress Summer Qing and setting part of the film in Shanghai.
DMG's involvement allowed it to distribute the film in China at the same time as its international premiere, where there was usually "a blackout period" before non-Chinese films could be screened in China.
While Chinese regulators did not grant "Looper" official co-production status, DMG's involvement with "Looper" as a Chinese company permitted its distribution of the film.
"Variety" reported, "That means that the film could be considered domestically Chinese, which can provide the same benefits as a co-production.
"DMG also contributed as a production partner for Marvel's "Iron Man 3", though Disney (through Marvel) and DMG withdrew plans to apply for official co-production status in China.
Despite the withdrawal, DMG's involvement resulted in inclusion of various Chinese elements such as the casting of Chinese actor Wang Xueqi and footage shot in Beijing.
The companies also edited a different version of "Iron Man 3" to be distributed in China.
The version included a scene with actor Fan Bingbing and "bonus footage specifically for Chinese viewers".
"Variety" reported that the company benefited from "strong connections" with Chinese government officials and the state-run film enterprise China Film Group Corporation.
The trade paper said, "The journeys of 'Looper' and 'Iron Man 3' were not exactly smooth, with questions over whether they would qualify as co-productions, which enjoy vital benefits in distribution, immunity from blackout periods and a far greater revenue share."
Mintz said DMG's involvement with the films has helped validate its approach to the Chinese film market. 
Critical response.
"Brave" received generally positive reviews from critics.
The film held a 78% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 217 reviews with an average rating of 6.9/10.
The site's critical consensus reads: ""Brave" offers young audiences and fairy tale fans a rousing, funny fantasy adventure with a distaff twist and surprising depth."
Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 69 based on 37 reviews, or "generally favorable."
The film was well-received among American audiences, earning an "A" CinemaScore.
Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film 3 out of 4 stars.
He wrote, "The good news is that the kids will probably love it, and the bad news is that parents will be disappointed if they're hoping for another Pixar groundbreaker.
Unlike such brightly original films as "Toy Story", "Finding Nemo", "WALL-E", and "Up", this one finds Pixar poaching on traditional territory of Disney."
He said that the film did have an uplifting message about improving communication between mothers and daughters, "although transforming your mother into a bear is a rather extreme first step."
Peter Debruge of "Variety" gave a positive review of the film, writing that the film "offers a tougher, more self-reliant heroine for an era in which princes aren't so charming, set in a sumptuously detailed Scottish environment, where her spirit blazes bright as her fiery red hair."
Debruge said that "adding a female director, Brenda Chapman, to its creative boys' club, the studio Pixar has fashioned a resonant tribute to mother-daughter relationships that packs a level of poignancy on par with such beloved male-bonding classics as "Finding Nemo".
"Conversely, Todd McCarthy of "The Hollywood Reporter" gave it a negative review, stating that the film "diminishes into a rather wee thing as it chugs along, with climactic drama that is both too conveniently wrapped up and hinges on magical elements that are somewhat confusing to boot."
Leonard Maltin on "IndieWire" said, "I'll give it points for originality, but that story twist is so bizarre that it knocked me for a loop.
The movie tries to make up for this detour with a heart-tugging, emotional finale, but the buildup to that moment has been undermined, so it doesn’t have the impact it should."
Some reviewers saw the Merida character as a novel break from the traditional line of Disney princesses.
There was some dissonance and criticism among viewers and organized feminists when her character was scheduled to be "crowned" a Disney princess, only for artists to render her thinner, with less frizzly hair, and rounder eyes, more like the other princesses from previous Disney movies.
This inspired girl-empowerment website A Mighty Girl to file a petition that Disney not alter their character.
One of the 108,000 signatories was Brenda Chapman, the co-director of the film, who felt that Disney had "betrayed the essence of what we were trying to do with Merida — give young girls and women a better, stronger role model," and that the makeover was "a blatantly sexist marketing move based on money."