Salon.com > Seven Psychopaths http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 22:35:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Seven Psychopaths”: A goofy, tormented near-masterpiece http://www.salon.com/2012/10/10/seven_psychopaths_a_goofy_tormented_near_masterpiece/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/10/seven_psychopaths_a_goofy_tormented_near_masterpiece/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:24:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13036194 I have contradictory things to say about playwright turned filmmaker Martin McDonagh’s “Seven Psychopaths,” which is pretty much in the spirit of the whole thing, since this movie is constantly rewriting itself and puncturing its own balloon. On one hand, McDonagh’s move into the American mainstream, and his follow-up to the Oscar-nominated international hit “In Bruges,” is admirably ambitious and brushes close to greatness at times. Both a movie about the movies and an L.A. crime thriller in the postmodern Tarantino tradition (forgive me for that phrase, if you can), “Seven Psychopaths” is loaded with scabrous, funny McDonagh dialogue and arguably overloaded with offbeat performances by terrific character actors: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson and a little shih tzu named Bonny.

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