Martin McDonagh’s ‘Wild Horse Nine’ Premieres at Venice Film Festival
Director Martin McDonagh presented his latest dark comedy, “Wild Horse Nine,” at the Venice Film Festival. The film, featuring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as CIA operatives, has drawn early critical praise for its sharp dialogue and performances.
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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...
By Peter Bradshaw in Venice
Read full article →‘Wild Horse Nine’ Review: John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell Are a Perfectly Paired Double Act in Martin McDonagh’s Melancholy Seventies Caper
More often than not, a Martin McDonagh script sets out like the start of a joke. Two Irishmen meet in a pub, a hangman and a stranger meet in a pub, two hitmen go on holiday to Belgium, a man searches for his missing left hand, a woman purchases three billboards. McDonagh likes a well-told […]
By Guy Lodge
Read full article →‘Wild Horse Nine’ Review: John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell Make a Perfect Pair in Martin McDonagh’s Poignant, Blood-Dipped Buddy Comedy
Steve Buscemi also stars in this story of two CIA operatives who take a trip to Easter Island while readying for the Chilean military coup that would overthrow the Salvador Allende government.
By David Rooney
Read full article →‘Wild Horse Nine’: What The Critics Are Saying About Martin McDonagh’s Dark Comedy
Wild Horse Nine debuted today at the Venice Film Festival with writer-director Martin McDonagh and actors John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi and Parker Posey among those to tread the carpet for the film’s world premiere. Press had showered the film with praise at the press conference earlier in the day and now the early reviews […]
By Andreas Wiseman
Read full article →‘Wild Horse Nine’ review: black comedy caustic bromance will clean up come awards season
John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell star as a pair of shady CIA operatives who are quickly reaching the end of their tether The post ‘Wild Horse Nine’ review: black comedy caustic bromance will clean up come awards season appeared first on NME.
By Lou Thomas
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