The Banshees of Inisherin

Martin McDonagh expertly threads humour and pathos like a master weaver who knows exactly when to change colours.

The Banshees of Inisherin is not just a beautifully written screenplay. This deeply affecting, warmly humorous, beautifully acted and handsomely photographed (by Ben Davis) film is a major work and top of my list for the best film of 2022.

As a comedy duo, Farrell and Gleeson are money in the bank, just as they were in McDonagh’s first feature In Bruges. As a pairing of actor and filmmaker, Farrell and McDonagh are no less in sync.

Evocative cinematography and a gorgeous score make this a spellbinding men-gone-wrong fable.

The film toggles masterfully between comedy and tragedy; realism and fable. It manages to be both of the moment and completely timeless.

I'd almost call this a horror film.

We're beholding a totally gratuitous drama, driven by inexplicable motives. [Full review in Spanish]

The real instigator isn’t whimsy, but an encroaching modernity and its sense of linear history.

a delicate balancing act, and McDonagh pulls it off with astonishing grace, punctuating the film’s humanity with heavy doses of ambiguity that keep you thinking and wrestling with the characters long after the credits have rolled

Captures the fragile state of being a human in one grand swoop of wit and weltschmerz — the film’s contours elegantly morose, its humour dark and bitter-sweet, its inhabitants erratic and gloriously eloquent, its landscape a mystery onto itself.