Summary

British-Irish filmmaker Martin McDonagh has become one of cinema's foremost stewards of the tragicomedy. In a McDonagh movie, violence or death can be hilarious, or devastating, or both. He forces us to sympathize with unlikable or even evil characters by showing that even those bad eggs still have human sides. Catholicism casts its shadow over McDonagh's stories, especially in how he loves to focus on guilty, even suicidally guilty, people.

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