87
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62 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinThis is an often shoulder-shudderingly funny film, whose comic dialogue is dazzlingly designed and performed. But McDonagh leaves fate itself with the last, black, bone-rattling laugh.
- 91The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezRich, layered, and full of beautiful shapeshifting emotional depth—at times laugh-out-loud funny, and then stopping on a dime to turn melancholy, heartrending, and or horrifying—The Banshee of Insherin will surely unsettle audiences trying to pinpoint blame or ascribe a hero or villain to the piece. Its morality and personal sympathies are purposefully opaque.
- 91ColliderBrian FormoColliderBrian FormoLike the sparse land of its setting, Inisherin is a film that reveals multitudes through observation and reflection. While I’m writing mostly of its emotional seriousness, it is also compassionate and humorous.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFor all its wit, its lively talk and deceptive lightness, this is arguably the writer-director’s most affecting work.
- 83IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichThis isn’t a film that strives for big laughs — McDonagh seems more interested in putting you in a particular frame of mind, even when doing so requires a fair bit of downtime and dead air — but its constant undercurrent of humor affords the story’s most pressing questions an appropriately ridiculous context, one that speaks to the absurdities of all existence.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThere are plenty of genuine laughs in this movie, but each of them seems to dovetail into a banshee-wail of pain.
- 80Vanity FairRichard LawsonVanity FairRichard LawsonThose wary of McDonagh after the bulldozer that was Billboards should seek out this film; at its best, The Banshees of Inisherin whispers and laments and amuses the way McDonagh’s best stage writing does. And it offers the invaluable opportunity to see Farrell in his hangdog element, as Pádraic scrambles about trying to find purchase in the world, ever creaking and groaning in motion.
- 80Total FilmJordan FarleyTotal FilmJordan FarleyMcDonagh’s latest is a worthy In Bruges reunion: smart, funny, deeply felt.