The Film Verdict: 95th Academy Awards® Spotlight

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

9 nominations including Best Picture, reviewed at Venice Film Festival, Sept. 5, 2022

VERDICT: The latest comedydrama from Martin McDonagh, which reunites the stars of 'In Bruges,' Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, is darkly entertaining but never quite believable.

Boyd van Hoeij

The stars of Martin McDonagh’s cult hit In Bruges, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, reunite for McDonagh’s latest project, The Banshees of Inisherin. Set on a desolate island off the coast of Ireland in 1923, the film tells the darkly comic and at times quite bloody story of two friends whose friendship comes undone when one of them decides he doesn’t want to talk to the other again because his friend is “dull.” Though the film is very much in Irish English instead of a more universally accessible but also pretty flavourless — standard English, this could become a niche hit for Searchlight, For full Review, go to https://thefilmverdict.com