The Bear star’s new sci-fi with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score debuts first trailer that looks like Groundhog Day meets Everything Everywhere All at Once
Aug. 14, 2024Omni Loop has already won over critics
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New sci-fi comedy Omni Loop has debuted its first trailer, and it looks like a moving take on the time-loop trope. The new movie stars Mary-Louise Parker as quantum physicist Zoya who gets stuck in a loop when she finds a black hole growing in her chest.
With only a week to live, she finds herself returning to the past in the hope of a cure, which is where she meets gifted student Paula (played by The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri). Together, the pair team up to try and save her life, as well as unlock the mysteries of time travel.
The new trailer teases the equally moving and comedic tone of the movie, which has led to comparisons to movies like Groundhog Day and Everything Everywhere All At Once. “This has all happened before, so many times before,” Zoya explains before taking a pill that allows her to travel back in time from her deathbed.
“History repeats itself in this ingenious but surprisingly heartfelt sci-fi,” saysDeadline’s Damon Wise. “Sometimes, in film and in life, the greatest gifts are the ones you don’t expect yet were there all along. Omni Loop is this in beautiful, bittersweet action,“Collider’s Chase Hutchinson writes.
“Writer-director Bernardo Britto’s latest is one of those lo-fi sci-fi movies that weaves the impossible into the mundane texture of everyday life,” addsKatie Rife from indieWire. Brian Tallerico atRogerEbert.comcalls it “a really well-done piece of sci-fi storytelling”.
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