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- Chris Barsanti @ Eyes Wide Open
- Excerpt: …pairs a crisp dramatic clarity and whistling-past-the-graveyard comedic tone with an underlying melancholy.
- David “DC” Bolling @ Film Yap
- Excerpt: Martin McDonagh delivers his tale of a friendship’s end that’s both darkly funny and poignant from start to finish. Considering the writing, directing, and standout performances from Farrell, Gleeson, and Condon, respectively, I walked out of the theater knowing full well this is one of the best films of 2022.
- Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: Martin McDonagh’s ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ is a fascinating, deeply felt parable about love and hate
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: It’s official – writer/director Martin McDonagh (“In Bruges”) produces his best work when he casts Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson…captures the soul of literary Ireland with its reflection of historical sweep in the psychology of everyday men.
- Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer-director Martin McDonagh is the lord of feel-bad cinema.
- Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN seems to be fundamentally a story of how life on an isolated island can either dull your brain or drive you insane. The characters’ actions and reactions drive the plot, such as it is, but the film on the whole seems just a look at a very bleak lifestyle.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Gleeson and Farrell play their roles to perfection despite being drawn as two-dimensional pawns in McDonagh’s game—two sides of the same broken coin, doubling down when the opportunity for growth presents itself because they’re too entitled to listen.
- [New] | Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
- Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: The dialog in Banshees crackles, despite the characters’ distinct unworldliness. McDonagh’s skill with reproducing Irish dialect for his characters’ patter made me feel at home, even when I didn’t understand every last word of what I was hearing.
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