Fresh
McDonagh is less saturated in film and pop culture than Tarantino and less prone than Kaufman to disappear down story wormholes.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Seven Psychopaths
They won't take any shih tzu.
2012 · 1h 50m · R
Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Martin McDonagh
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Seven Psychopaths
Overview
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Director and cast
- Martin McDonagh Director
- Colin Farrell as Marty Faranan
- Sam Rockwell as Billy Bickle
- Woody Harrelson as Charlie Costello
- Christopher Walken as Hans Kieslowski
- Olga Kurylenko as Angela
- Tom Waits as Zachariah Rigby
- Abbie Cornish as Kaya
- Michael Stuhlbarg as Tommy
- Kevin Corrigan as Dennis
- Zeljko Ivanek as Paolo
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
82%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The kind of messy, absurdist movie that can lift you out of a crappy mood-at least for a while.
David Denby, New Yorker
Fresh
This is one of the best times I've had at the movies in years.
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com
Fresh
All this narrative nesting and genre-skipping sounds very cerebral on the page, but in practice, Seven Psychopaths is as pleasurably kinetic as can be, full of double-crosses and gunplay and sun-kissed SoCal locations.
Dana Stevens, Slate
Fresh
Each time it appears that McDonagh, who also directed, has written himself into a cul de sac, he off-roads the movie (sometimes literally) into fresh territory.
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
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