Almost a decade before the Oscar-winning Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, writer-director Martin McDonagh made his feature directorial debut with this sublime tale about a pair of hitmen ...

Martin McDonagh is behind some true gems, from the wicked Seven Psychopaths to last year’s tremendous The Banshees of Inisherin. However, his now-prestigious career began with a little 2008 film that ...

"In Bruges" sounds like an action film: Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), who apparently like everyone else in the movie have no last names, are two hit men holed up in Bruges. Bruges is ...

One thing is certain: “In Bruges” is like no other hit man movie you’ve ever seen. Written and directed by Martin McDonagh, who won the 2006 best short film Oscar for “Six Shooter,” “In Bruges” puts ...

When I think of the “holiday movie,” my mind usually jolts straight to something like “Home Alone” or “Elf,” movies rich in vibrant greens and reds, frosty snow as far as the eye can see and angelic ...

Playwright Martin McDonagh can make audiences laugh, and he can make them uncomfortable about what they're laughing at. He's had a string of hit plays on London's West End, most recently with The ...

At the end of a year that’s felt a little lacking in glad tidings, at least there’s no shortage of Christmas movies to escape into. Whether you’re running back the entire Home Alone saga, revisiting ...

The jaunty hit-man-with-a-guilty-conscience movie has been made and re-made since 1997’s Grosse Pointe Blank and before, but never have the moral quandaries of paid assassins been so brilliantly ...

A pair of hit men are ordered to cool their heels in the fairy-tale city of Bruges after a job goes terribly wrong. What awful thing happened isn’t clear, but young Ray (Colin Farrell) is clearly the ...