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Wild Horse Nine review – Malkovich and Rockwell head to Easter Island for McDonagh’s acid bromance
Venice film festival Two men, some violence, much freewheeling chat: so far, so standard fare from the Oscar-winning writer-director. But this time the comedy and charm can feel diluted by blood and machismo It isn’t a Martin McDonagh movie unless you’ve got two morose guys – one old, one not so old – who do nothing all the livelong day but bitch and snipe and quarrel and exchange barbed bromantic dialogue while occasionally going off on a plaintive tangent about nothing at all, incidentally revealing something very wrong with their friendship. If it can be called that. In The Banshees of Inisherin from 2022 , the older guy decides he wants nothing more to do with the younger guy; in In Bruges from 14 years earlier (of which this latest film is almost a retread or maybe B-side), the older guy has an awful secret he is keeping from the younger guy. Wild Horse Nine brings McDonagh to a US
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Venice film festival Two men, some violence, much freewheeling chat: so far, so standard fare from the Oscar-winning writer-director. But this time the comedy and charm can feel diluted by blood and machismo It isn’t a Martin McDonagh movie unless you’ve got two morose guys – one old, one not so old – who do nothing all the livelong day but bitch and snipe and quarrel and exchange barbed bromantic dialogue while occasionally going off on a plaintive tangent about nothing at all, incidentally revealing something very wrong with their friendship. If it can be called that. In The Banshees of Inisherin from 2022 , the older guy decides he wants nothing more to do with the younger guy; in In Bruges from 14 years earlier (of which this latest film is almost a retread or maybe B-side), the older guy has an awful secret he is keeping from the younger guy. Wild Horse Nine brings McDonagh to a US
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Wild Horse Nine review – Malkovich and Rockwell head to Easter Island for McDonagh’s acid bromance, Venice film festival Two men, some violence, much freewheeling chat: so far, so standard fare from the Oscar-winning writer-director. But this time the comedy and charm can feel diluted by blood and machismo It isn’t a Martin McDonagh movie unless you’ve got two morose guys – one old, one not so old – who do nothing all the livelong day but bitch and snipe and quarrel and exchange barbed bromantic dialogue while occasionally going off on a plaintive tangent about nothing at all, incidentally revealing something very wrong with their friendship. If it can be called that. In The Banshees of Inisherin from 2022 , the older guy decides he wants nothing more to do with the younger guy; in In Bruges from 14 years earlier (of which this latest film is almost a retread or maybe B-side), the older guy has an awful secret he is keeping from the younger guy. Wild Horse Nine brings McDonagh to a US
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