Whimsy and Violence in “The Banshees of Inisherin”

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Whimsy and Violence in “The Banshees of Inisherin”
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Like many of Martin McDonagh’s films, “The Banshees of Inisherin” is characterized by a dark and measured whimsy, borne by its own momentum into violence, Anthony Lane writes.

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As to what follows, admirers of McDonagh will know what to expect: a dark and measured whimsy, borne by its own momentum into violence. Jokes that get stuck in the throat. Such was the pattern established by “In Bruges” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” .

What animates “The Banshees of Inisherin” and saves it from stiffness is the clout of the performances. Within the oxlike Colm, thanks to Gleeson, we glimpse a ruminative despair, and Farrell adds Pádraic to his gallery of heroes so hapless that they forfeit all claim to the heroic. The movie, however, belongs to Condon, familiar to viewers of “Rome” and “Better Call Saul,” on TV, and now, at last, given her cinematic due.

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