Question: How did reviewer Todd McCarthy feel about Looper?
About the article "Looper (film)", section "Toronto International Film Festival".

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The reviewer from "Pyramid" noted that "Silver Marches" is the first Forgotten Realms book "to transport a highly detailed chunk of the Realms into 3rd Edition", and called it "a worthy read for all DMs".
The reviewer also commented on the appearance of the book: "The layout and art team really did a great job.
The cover, with art by Vance Kovacs, is fine in both design and imagery; the wrap-around painting of an invading orc horde says a lot about the forging of the Silver Marches.
Design and typography are top-notch, with few instances of text crowding and typographic errors.
Prose is written with storytelling flair, rarely falling into repetitive style.
The interior artwork lives up to WotC's fine reputation, and, though a few images are lacking, the varying styles give the book a dynamic feel.
Of particular note are Christopher Moeller's portraiture and Adam Rex's dynamic compositions.
Of course, one must always note Todd Lockwood's dragons."
In a review published in Variety, Todd McCarthy was largely positive.
He praised the interviews with Fonda, Stewart, and Wayne, describing them as "possessing an extraordinary here-and-now immediacy", and found the interview with Ford "hilarious".
He was less enthusiastic about some of the newer interviews, which were shot on video, feeling that they lacked the "vibrant look" and "elegant mobility" of the earlier interviews, recorded on film by a dolly-mounted camera.
He did, however, single out Lindsay Anderson's 1992 interview with Maureen O'Hara, a deathbed recording of Ford speaking with Katharine Hepburn, and a more honest treatment of Ford's personal life illustrated by scenes from "How Green Was My Valley" as worthwhile additions to the updated version. 
"Return" was the sole U.S. film selected for the 25-film 2011 Cannes Film Festival Director's Fortnight.
Following its premiere at the festival, "Boston Globe" reviewer Wesley Morris wrote, "I like Johnson's delicacy and discretion.
She trusts Cardellini's natural, easygoing performance to show us what goes untold.
The movie is modest, too, and its small emotional scale works.
Without asking for pity or outrage, it's another movie about the unaccountable, unending drain of war."
"Hollywood Reporter" reviewer Todd McCarthy stated, ""Return" has quiet virtues and the distinction of focusing closely on one particular woman’s difficulty readjusting to being a wife and mother."
Noting Cardellini's appearance in nearly every scene, the review continued, "she delivers by keeping you interested no matter how mundane the activity Kelli is performing.
It’s a wholehearted performance".
He noted Slattery's "amusing change-of-pace role", that Shannon "plays it absolutely straight for once", and credited Anne Etheridge's "mobile cinematography" with maintaining "a watchful air of intimacy.
"Mark Adams (ScreenDaily.com) called the film "thoughtful and gently powerful," "subtle and simply told", noting that it "eschews the usual dramatic cues of the ‘soldier back home’ story", and called Cardellini's performance "terrific", "generating a real sense of warmth and affection but also a slight unease and distrust in those around her."
He found Shannon's performance "equally impressive"; "his sheer presence and subtle performance bolsters Cardillini’s performance, making what on screen is a minor role seem more substantial."
The review in "Variety" called the film "amiable, stylish, low-key", Cardellini's performance as "wholly credible", and Slattery's portrayal of Bud as a "welcome jolt of energy and humor", though director Johnson "takes audience interest rather too much for granted in the pic's first half.
"Five reviewers for IndieWire gave the film grades of B+, B-, B+, B, and B.
The review aggregator Metacritic score is 63/100, based on 12 reviews. 
Gordon-Levitt has said that he made a conscious decision to "be in good movies" after returning to acting.
His films include 2001's drama "Manic", which was set in a mental institution, "Mysterious Skin" (2004), in which he played a gay prostitute and child sexual abuse victim, and "Brick" (2005), a modern-day film noir set at a high school, in which he had the lead role of Brendan Frye, a teen who becomes involved in an underground drug ring while investigating a murder.
"Brick" received positive reviews, with "The Minnesota Daily"'s critic commenting that Gordon-Levitt played the character "beautifully", "true to film's style", "unfeeling but not disenchanted", and "sexy in the most ambiguous way."
Another reviewer described the performance as "astounding".
He also starred opposite Steve Sandvoss as a young judgmental missionary in "Latter Days" (2003), a film that centers on a sexually repressed Mormon missionary (Sandvoss) who falls for his gay neighbor.
He had roles in "Havoc" and "Shadowboxer".
His next role was in 2007's "The Lookout", in which he played Chris Pratt, a janitor involved in a bank heist.
In reviewing the film, "The Philadelphia Inquirer" described Gordon-Levitt as a "surprisingly formidable, and formidably surprising, leading man", while "New York" magazine stated that he is a "major tabula rasa actor ... a minimalist", and that his character worked because he "doesn't seize the space ... by what he takes away from the character."
The "San Francisco Chronicle" specified that he "embodies, more than performs, a character's inner life."
His 2008 films include "Killshot", in which he played a hoodlum partnered with a hired killer played by Mickey Rourke, and "Stop-Loss", directed by Kimberly Peirce and revolving around American soldiers returning from the Iraq War.
Gordon-Levitt played a lead role opposite Zooey Deschanel in "(500) Days of Summer", a well-received 2009 release about the deconstruction of a relationship.
His performance, described as "the real key" to what makes the film work, credits him with using "his usual spell in subtle gradations."
"Variety"s Todd McCarthy praised his performance, saying he "expressively alternates between enthusiasm and forlorn disappointment in the manner Jack Lemmon could".
Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" said the movie "hits you like a blast of pure romantic oxygen" and credited both lead actors for playing "it for real, with a grasp of subtlety and feeling that goes beyond the call of breezy duty."
He was subsequently nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
He later played villain Cobra Commander in "".
On November 21, 2009, he hosted "Saturday Night Live".
In 2010, he replaced James Franco to star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Christopher Nolan's science fiction thriller "Inception", which received favorable reviews.
In 2011, Gordon-Levitt began filming Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises", in which he played John Blake, a beat police officer who emerges as a key ally of Batman.
Also released in 2012, he played the starring role of a bicycle messenger in the action film "Premium Rush"; the younger version of the lead role, shared with Bruce Willis, in the time-travel thriller "Looper"; and the supporting role of Robert Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's biopic "Lincoln".
On January 7, 2013, it was confirmed that Gordon-Levitt was cast as new character Johnny in "", described as "a cocky gambler who disguises a darker mission to destroy his most foul enemy at his best game".
In October 2013, it was reported that he was one of the frontrunners to play the lead character for Marvel Studios and Edgar Wright's superhero film Ant-Man. 
The film received generally mixed to negative reviews from critics.
Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 27% based upon a sample of 186 reviews with an average score of 4.6/10.
On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received a below average score of 36 based on 33 reviews.
Despite these review, the film remains popular with mainstream audience.
"Variety"s film reviewer Todd McCarthy predicted that the movie's climax "will be emotionally devastating for many viewers, perhaps particularly those with serious religious beliefs," and characterized the film as an "endlessly sentimental fable about sacrifice and redemption that aims only at the heart at the expense of the head."
A. O. Scott, writing for "The New York Times", said that the movie "may be among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made.
"Positive reviews singled out Dawson's performance.
Richard Corliss wrote in "Time" that Dawson gives "a lovely performance," while Mick LaSalle of the "San Francisco Chronicle" noted that Dawson's performance "shows once again that she has it in her to be the powerhouse."
Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun Times" commented on the fact that the audience is kept completely out of the loop as to what Tim is doing, comparing the film to Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samouraï", pointing out how he "finds this more interesting than a movie about a man whose nature and objectives are made clear in the first five minutes, in a plot that simply points him straight ahead."