Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Groundhog Day,” but make it about an inescapable terminal illness. In writer/director Bernardo Britto’s “Omni Loop,” Mary-Louise ...

Omni Loop (now streaming on Hulu) is one of the more understated brainbenders in recent memory. Writer/director Bernardo Britto concocted a high-concept time-travel story and executed it with a low ...

“Forever,” unsurprisingly, is a key word when you’re talking about a time loop, which is what Parker’s Zoya Lowe happens to be caught in. A writer of science textbooks on quantum physics and other ...

In Groundhog Day, some unexplained force — maybe celestial, certainly moral — traps misanthropic weatherman Bill Murray in a single, repeated day until he sheds his attitude and becomes a better ...

Omni Loop is a sci-fi drama by director and writer Bernardo Britto and stars Mary-Louise Parker as Zoya Lowe, a quantum physicist stuck in a time loop. She finds out she has a black hole in her chest ...

Omni Loop delves deep into existential questions, utilizing its sci-fi premise as a means of reflection. Both Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri are great in even just the smallest conversation scenes ...

Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri in Omni Loop. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures In Omni Loop, Mary-Louise Parker’s has-been physicist Zoya has a black hole growing where her heart should be. The ...

With a black hole in her heart and five days left to live, a once-promising physicist, Zoya Lowe (Mary-Louise Parker), finds herself on a mission to figure out how to survive. Bernardo Britto’s film, ...

Since Groundhog Day reinvented the genre, time-loop movies have been a way to tell a high-stakes story in a low-stakes way (the exception being Edge of Tomorrow, every aspect of which is high-stakes).

The movies do not deserve Mary Louise Parker. Her work in the New York theater scene since the 1990s has been rightfully praised from Broadway to the Battery, and the serialized nature of television ...