Synopsis
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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Cast
- Colin FarrellPádraic Súilleabháin
- Brendan GleesonColm Doherty
- Kerry CondonSiobhán Súilleabháin
- Barry KeoghanDominic Kearney
- Gary LydonPeadar Kearney
- Pat ShorttJonjo Devine
- Jon KennyGerry
- Sheila FlittonMrs. McCormick
- David PearsePriest
- Bríd Ní NeachtainMrs. O'Riordan
Recommendations
- 100
The Telegraph
This 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. - 100
Variety
The result feels closer than any of his previous films to the barbed, intimate lyricism of McDonagh’s work as a playwright, and more deeply, sorrowfully felt to boot. - 91
The Playlist
Rich, 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. - 91
Collider
Like 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. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
For all its wit, its lively talk and deceptive lightness, this is arguably the writer-director’s most affecting work. - 90
Uproxx
Like In Bruges, The Banshees of Inisherin is a dark movie that is often downright hilarious. - 83
IndieWire
This 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. - 80
The Guardian
There are plenty of genuine laughs in this movie, but each of them seems to dovetail into a banshee-wail of pain.
