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Film Commentary: The Gratuitous Comic Cruelty of “The Banshees of Inishiren”

January 6, 2023

Posted in Commentary, Featured, Film

The island scenery is stunning and the acting is fine, but at is core Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inishiren is bitter and mean-spirited

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