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Every day is exactly the same. That’s how it goes in time-loop stories, and how it can feel to write about them, too. Eventually, you become trapped in your own loop, repeating yourself again and again. Call it the
Groundhog Day of critic beats: How many different ways are there to say that Bill Murray perfected this premise already? You can focus on the actors, the genre accent, the astro this or anomalous that. You can mention whether the characters mention
Groundhog Day. But at a certain point, you’re just running down a list of memorized patterns, like poor Phil Connors and every other broken-clock sucker to come after him. To amuse yourself, maybe you reach for a gimmick…