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‘Wild Horse Nine’ Review: Martin McDonagh’s Prickly but Unconvincing CIA Satire Recasts ‘In Bruges’ as the Stuff of a Classic Western

[Editor’s note: This review was originally published on September 3, 2026 during the 2026 Venice Film Festival. Searchlight Pictures will release it in theaters on Friday, November 6.

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[Editor’s note: This review was originally published on September 3, 2026 during the 2026 Venice Film Festival. Searchlight Pictures will release it in theaters on Friday, November 6. ] Another melancholically splenetic Martin McDonagh jag about a banter-mad pair of murderers who go on a boys trip to purgatory (where they search their souls as they wait for death to find them), the prickly but unconvincing “ Wild Horse Nine ” strains to translate the post-Guy Ritchie bark of “In Bruges” into the language of a classic American Western.

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