- Starring: Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Tom Waits, Woody Harrelson
- Summary: The comedy Seven Psychopaths follows a struggling screenwriter who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster’s beloved Shih Tzu. (CBS Films)
- Director: Martin McDonagh
- Genre(s): Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 5
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Mixed: 2 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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91A less controlled and slapdash character piece than "In Bruge," McDonagh's new movie benefits greatly from a plethora of one-liners that toy with crime movie clichés in the unlikely context of writerly obsessions.
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Sep 12, 201280While it's way behind the "Pulp Fiction" curve, Seven Psychopaths can be terrifically entertaining.
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Sep 9, 201260Compared to McDonagh's best work for stage ("The Lieutenant of Inishmore") and screen ("In Bruges"), Seven Psychopaths feels like either an older script knocking around the bottom of a drawer or a new one hastily tossed off between more ambitious projects.
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