The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

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Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

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Directed By: Martin McDonagh

Written By: Martin McDonagh

Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan, Pat Shortt, David Pearse, Jon Kenny, Sheila Flitton, Gary Lydon, Aaron Monaghan, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola

Genre: Drama

Country: Ireland, UK, USA

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Stars	User	Rating
23	P u l p	78 _85th
Men literally cut their fingers off and still won't go to therapy.
11	juntakinte99	90 _82nd
Most movies are terrible at showcasing male friendships unless they are between cops, criminals, or superheroes. So this one is refreshing in how it illustrates the depressing end of a friendship and toxic masculinity. Martin McDonagh is gifted with dialogue, although at times the heavy talking and Irish accents makes it feel more like a play and less like cinema. Still it holds up as a darkly tragic comedy with character choices that will haunt you. And Colin Farrell is amazing. Recommended.
8	sybarite	40 _27th
Pretends to seriousness when it’s just maudlin to its core. This is “adult” filmmaking in the age of Avengers movies: no subtlety, nothing left unstated or mysterious. Gleeson is reduced to waving his bloody stumps like some ghoul out of Harry Potter or like the meat-of-the-week in Game of Thrones. Nothing like Béla Tarr. Visually, it’s a tissue of clichés… it should be forbidden to shoot movies in Ireland. Don’t even get me started on the sexy cannibal donkeys.
7	Corbad	70 _54th
Civil war is feckin’ shite, so. And if that’s not the point of this film, I suppose I just don’t have this sort of men in my life to relate it back to - once the film turns from slow rural comedy to utter, preventable tragedy, its characters likewise transform from charming bumpkins to caricatures of concept. Terrifically performed and never boring, but too unreal and (dare I say?) unnecessarily cruel. May yet stick with me and improve in recollection.
6	bowfinger	95 _98th
Oddly similar to his brother's Calvary (2014) because of the same dark humor, being centered around the exact same themes, and probably due to presence of Gleeson, so much so that it feels like I'm watching the same movie, and yet the story is still original and much more accessible. Both are a "McDonagh's masterpiece".
5	terrymac	88 _96th
Manages to get the balance of tragedy and jet-black humor right, largely on the strength of the lead performances; Gleeson, Farrell, Condon and Keoghan are excellent here. Simple, efficient, but with a lot to say about the Irish Civil War and masculinity itself. Definitely worth seeing.
5	Mentaculus	88 _87th
Men fear, perhaps more than anything, their own futility, and Inisherin is a landscape built to heighten it: nothing to do but gossip and milk cows and drink a pint and listen to a war off in the distance where at least they’re contributing. The stripped simplicity in every aspect of the film elevates the characters to people flailing at purpose. The preacher here may be yelling fuck out of the confessional but I’m reminded of Ecclestiasties: For all is Vanity, and chasing after the wind.
5	deaddilly	90 _94th
TIFF 22: McDonagh starts with a hilariously simple narrative and slowly unveils its insidious power through to a devastatingly equalizing finale. Banshees' true drama exists in the conceptual, the hidden inner turmoil of the characters. In this way it feels almost literary, dealing with human yearning, suffering, irrationality through a series of outbursts and fallout. Easily my favourite thing I've seen this year.
4	KasperL	90 _97th
Beautifully shot original tale with formidable acting by Gleeson, Condon and, particularly, Farrell. Not only one of the very best movies of the year but also McDonaugh's best.
4	Bown	84 _72nd
Men would rather lists all the stuff that happens in this movie than go to therapy
4	Leonardis	96 _91st
Definitely one of my favorites from 2022. McDonagh never misses. His scripts are always darkly hilarious or sharp or both, and this is one of his best yet. I for one was fine with the ending, and it legitimately got me thinking about my own friendships and life. Not rethinking, just thinking. It’s a much deeper, thought-provoking film than I expected. Farrell is excellent, but Condon was phenomenal. Gleeson and Keoghan were very amusing though. Expertly shot and paced. I felt like I was there.
3	CosmicMonkey	83 _77th
The microcosmic feud between two men of the island of Inisherin serves as a metaphor for the Irish Civil War: Two men, former best-friends, now feuding for unclear reasons, trapped in an escalating cycle of violence and retribution and surrounded by an abusive police force and an apathetic church. McDonagh takes the black comedy of "In Bruges" and the subtext and pathos of "Three Billboards" and combines them with socio-historical commentary to make his best and most meaningful film yet.
3	Mirelurk	80 _81st
Great flick, very funny but with a matte black vibe throughout. Really cool to see the negative side of rural life in Ireland and the islands which in wide release films always seem to be romanticised. Fantastic performances from everyone but Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan steal the show (even though I think Farrell is doing some career best work in a subtle way.) Sail, don't run to your nearest showing!
3	mandy	9 _98th
Although trailered as a comedy and indeed it does have many laugh out loud moments- this is a very dark film. Fantastic performances from the entire cast and beautiful cinematography make this a compelling and thought provoking watch.
3	Hawkins	91 _91st
Brendan Gleeson tries giving the Irish Goodbye to a whole friendship, even though he's not going anywhere. Think 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles' but the pathos is all inverted. Directing, editing, and acting all convey a mastery of tone and timing, and the beautiful landscape is fully utilized. It looks fantastic, it may be the best Ireland = Green Color Palette shtick I've ever seen.
3	ADragon91	85 _92nd
Martin McDonagh is back in top form. An excellent Drama about friendships with well-written characters and plenty of black humour. Nicely shot in Ireland, great performances and lovely music makes this easily one of the best films of 2022. Definitely Oscars worthy for sure.
3	doyler29	80 _64th
I really like this film and I suspect I will grow to like it even more on repeat viewing. Farrell and Gleason are as good a pair here as they were in "In Bruges", yet they couldn't be more different. Kerry Condon steals the movie out from under them as Farrell's smarter sister (She has some wonderful scenes that really contrast male and female perspectives on life.) Barry Keoghan steals more scenes as a funny little weirdo.
2	amerigo	80 _69th
Good normal chatting, but the film is rather dim, like.
2	Obdurate	95 _97th
This is an incredible display of acting from the core 4 (Gleeson, Farrell, Condon and Keoghan). Gleeson and Farrell together are awesome. Writing handles seriousness well, and it doesn't shove punchlines at you, it slowly unveils them. Lines that don't seem funny are funny in context. Trailers don't do this justice. Takes a simple idea and makes it compelling. Brilliant directing too: good marriage with somber music, scenic shots, wonderful framing, artsy but not pretentiously so.
2	TheRealJ-Ro	85 _84th
A colourful, masterfully-told tale of two men in the dying days of their friendship. Uncomfortably relatable. I believe we have all been Colm at one time or another - desperate to grow beyond the straightjacket of what has been comfortable and normal. We've probably all been Padraic, too - a "this is life" type who thrives in that comfort and stillness, barely wanting for anything more. Gleeson and Farrell are splendid, and very few directors could hope to tell this story like Martin McDonagh.
2	alanstrang	91 _96th
I felt a Bela-Tarr-esque emotion watching The Banshees of Inishering where McDonagh weaves a sweater of nothing through Gleeson and Farell. Very touching, very humane. Relaying Cansu's comment: "You can give an Oscar even to Farrell's eyebrows."
2	PetrosTser	70 _66th
Wholly immersive thanks to the beautiful photography, excellent dialogues and a cast of memorable, perfectly chosen faces helmed by the great duo of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, it's perhaps McDonagh's most antithetical film: the first half is surprisingly hilarious to the point of bordering on farce, while the second is considerably grimmer as the characters are driven to extremes that work symbolically as portrayals of their worldview and relationship but contextually seem far-fetched.
2	hellboy76	74 _90th
I am not smart enough to understand all of the obvious metaphors with the Irish Civil War, but what I do clearly grasp is the great performances by everyone in this film. Particularly Kerry Condon and Farrell.
2	Darren	74 _63rd
I could talk about how much this differed from the way Mcdonagh normally intersects bitterness and violence. The cynicism not being as winking. The violence being a far distant after thought. But I’ll leave it with an abridged Cassavetes quote. “there is no communication between people. Instead it’s long-winded stories or hostile bits, or laughter. But nobody’s really laughing. It’s more an hysterical, joyless kind of sound. Translation: ‘I am here and I don’t know why.”
2	MontyCircus	80 _88th
A dark comedy with some big laughs. Worthy of a best picture nomination; if the Oscars snubs it, it should at least sneak in as a comedy at the Golden Globes.
2	mattorama12	62 _40th
Sometimes I'm too dumb to "get" a film, but I can still enjoy it on the surface level. Here, I was too dumb to get it and the surface level also didn't really work for me as a story. The humor, photography, and some strong performances were enough to make this still decent, but I think I need to read about this to understand it.
2	kough33	80 _87th
spoilers Take the dream away from the dimmest ones; they will either die or change to become more like the smart ones, not nice like.
2	joel-w-m	8 _81st
A quirky short film-like premise gets expertly expanded under vast Irish sky, casually meandering like a stroll down to the shore and back up to the pub into the territories of pure drama and absurdist dark comedy, respectively. What is a friendship? What is a life well-lived? "How's the despair?" These questions are bandied about in a snappy, smart script (Dominic's tragic arc felt disconnected though), perfectly acted out. Siobahn's a perfect third character ("You're all fucking boring!").
2	Quintonjamin	70 _66th
I didn’t think this was nearly as hilarious as In Bruges. I might need to watch it again in order to truly understand it fully, which I don’t think could be said about Bruges.
2	The_Rveal	40 _80th
The film resists an easy read but invites viewers to savor the details of both its central relationship and of the characters around Colm and Pádraic, like Dominic, an abused, dull-witted boy who becomes Pádraic’s hanger-on, and Siobhán, Pádraic’s well-read sister, who comes to suspect there’s no future for her on Inisherin. This possibility seems never to have occurred to Colm and Pádraic even as their countrymen kill each other heading into a tomorrow that may have no room for either of them.
1	wayofthegun	80 _66th
A bit of an odd premise and setup, and slogs at times, but the performances, writing, and wit keep it going strong.
1	Difontaine	86 _90th
You have to be patient with it, but when it gets going it's darkly, bizarrely good.
1	frederic_g54	7 _57th
Something about this film felt unresolved and underdeveloped, as if the film never elevates itself above its premise or the absudity of the situation. Has its moments but easily ranks as McDonagh's worst, for me personally.
1	msprague	91 _98th
A lovely film, dark and humorous and dark. Fantastic performances by all.
1	cussot	75 _24th
I found the writing trite and reductive. A bit like being hit with a stout piece of metaphorical blackthorn. But I applaud all the actors for doing their very best. And I was particularly impressed by the Costume Knitter - well done, you, Pádraic's jumpers are brilliant. (And thanks to the New York Times, I now know her name: Mrs. Delia Barry)
1	DavidBlast	85 _88th
Mostly I am amazed at how complicated such a simple parable can be. It stayed with me for weeks.
1	ehk2	75 _91st
Do all Irelanders, even the dumbest, speak so quick-wittedly, as if they were out of a Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde?
1	thegreyfox	95 _98th
You can come out of a movie and think "That was awesome, do you fancy a KFC?", or if it is a Lynchian film, "What the f*** was that about, did you understand it?" .. then there is the type of film which resonates so deeply, where you are emotionally invested on so many levels, where everything is so brilliantly cast, scripted, acted and filmed that it stays with you in every waking moment. I love this film, the lead actors and the sense of getting old, and thinking "have I 'achieved' anything?"
1	hologram	87 _65th
Couldn't he have just wrote a letter...? Keoghan's love confession scene is the most emotionally painful thing I have ever seen on film.
1	sproost	70 _67th
Banshees is at its weakest when it tries too hard to be an absurdist comedy, but at its best when it lets breathing room for Gleeson and especially Colin Farrell to do his thing by acting the subtext. i'm surprised i actually like a movie done by the guy who made the awful Billboards in Missouri- maybe he's more in his oils when the setting is something he's familiar with.
1	karlson	70 _45th
The comedy-drama style of McDonagh is such that it is neither a drama nor a comedy. Interesting elements at best. Reminds me too strongly of Dutch cinema, only with better acting. ADD ON after three weeks: The movie stayed with me more than i expected… Made me smile now and than… rating it higher now…
1	Seethruskin	4 _52nd
More enjoyable than the others I’ve seen of his. Less smarmy and cynical in a boring and violent way. One of the funniest movies of the year. And piercing, not really in its critiques of male friendships, but with the struggle a lot of people have within themselves. In Tree of Life voiceover voice: being a pretentious douche, being a carefree philistine, always you wrestle inside of me.
1	bof	85 _92nd
The pride of Ireland.
1	aross	80 _81st
I like dark comedy, and I thought this had lots of laughs in the first half. As the movie goes on, it becomes more tragedy than comedy. Beautiful setting and great acting all around.
1	JSchlansky	88 _88th
I'm already looking forward to the sequel, The Donkeys of Inisherin, and then the conclusion to the trilogy, The Bread Vans of Lisdoonvarna. Punching a policeman is not a sin, this movie gets it.
1	amazedemon	67 _75th
Strong performances from Farrell & Gleeson make McDonagh's film an engaging watch despite its sluggish pace. The Civil War analogy is made apparent by the end, though not laboured throughout, especially if it's not on your mind going in. The decaying friendship is handled well with both leads coming across as flawed; both stubborn, both right from their point-of-view, both needlessly escalating things. The humour is alright, and I can't say I want to rewatch it, but it remains a very good film.
1	philamental	45 _14th
An extremely well made film with fantastic performances (Farrell and Keoghan in particular) but I just found it an utterly depressing experience. Normally I enjoy black comedy but the excessively bleak tale of rural irish loneliness and futility is maybe one that I've had too much second hand experience growing up with to see the funny side.
1	anilscn	72 _84th
SPOİLER son yarım saatteki yarrak gibi absürtlükler efsanevi bir şeyin içine etmiş içine. yok sinirlenince parmak kesmek filan, kesilen parmakları yemeye çalışan eşeğin ölmesi, intikam için ev yakılacağını herkesin polis dahil bilmesi ama müdahale etmemesi vs. abi niye sıkı gerçekçiliği absürtlüğe çeviriyorsun yazık günah ya hele ki böylesi kusursuz bir iç savaş metaforu varken. Mcdonagh sen harbi malsın
1	RuruSmasher	94 _87th
What do you do when the ginger you thought was your best friend stops talking to you out of the blue? No, please, not that! This is a brilliant film that needles the line between comedy and tragedy perfectly - I cried like 5 times only to laugh 3 seconds later. Banshees is about loneliness, pain, ACAB, really cute small donkeys and also the civil war in Northern Ireland (but I don't know enough history to get the context). Nobody better mess with Siobhan, like ever!
1	feublo	90 _90th
Futility soon becomes a driving force to make sure all things connected to our turmoil have a purpose or a certain intensity of emotion. With that, the "nice" and "dull" periods of life start to become more frequent with death approaching as though a banshee exists with warning. Well written and worth rewatching.
1	brell	45 _92nd
it was going alright until she put the fork in her own eye, I insist as I fail to comprehend how much everyone but me hates what life has turned out to be. the solution to entropy is absurdity, but things get broken either way
1	SHOCKULAR	84 _80th
A very good dark dramedy. Beautifully shot and very well acted by both of the leads. The metaphor for the Irish Civil War is not particularly subtle, but this is one of those movies where you want to see what happened after the credits roll, even though of course nothing did because it's a movie.

Average Percentile 72.66% from 1297 Ratings