The Top 10 Films of 2022

Melancholic black comedy The Banshees of Inisherin heads up our critics' picks

"...their favorite of the year? The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh's tale of two friends who suddenly stop talking,..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10 Films of 2022

"...Best Original Screenplay: Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin), Todd Field, (TÁR), Daniels,..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Screens Feature

Josh Kupecki's Top10 Films of 2022

"...Benson (Something in the Dirt), James Gray (Armageddon Time), Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Screens Feature

Richard Whittaker’s Top 10 Films of 2022

"...Best Original Screenplay: Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin); Seth Reiss, Will Tracy..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Screens Feature

Report From the Toronto International Film Festival

Pass the popcorn (and the awards)

"...study from the director of the iPhone-made Tangerine), and Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (darkly funny and..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest Fills the Card

Massive list includes closing night film

"...So about those films: Just as Martin McDonagh's eagerly awaited Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri grabbed..."

Sept. 5, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Examining the Sins and Virtues of Hypermasculine Theatre

When is violence in theatre too much?

"...banner has been taken up by the likes of Martin McDonagh (The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Pillowman), Tracy Letts..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Arts Feature by Shanon Weaver

City Theatre's Bus Stop

Director Tracy Arnold stages William Inge's drama with humor and charm, but seems to fight against the script's darkness

"...intended. For example, in 2007, Hyde Park Theatre took Martin McDonagh's dark, dystopian The Pillowman and focused on the..."

March 25, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Top 10 Creative Things I Lucked Into in 2013

Remembering the year thick with superlative works of art onstage and in galleries

"...hinge to open a door between two theatre productions: Martin McDonagh's 'THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE' (Capital T Theatre), brought..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

He Happy Is

For Mark Pickell, Capital T Theatre is a source of joy

"...Sinn Nachtrieb's apocalyptic not-quite-a-romance to The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Martin McDonagh's domestic drama mixing unhinged Irish terrorists, bullets, blood,..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five Cool Things You Might Wanna Check Out This Weekend

Because there's good reason to celebrate, right now, isn't there?

"...revenge after someone kills his fekkin' cat. This is Martin McDonagh's seriocomic and extremely violent The Lieutenant of Inishmore,..."

June 26, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hey, Jude

The talented Mr. Hickey deftly clambers up that old ladder (ladder, ladder, ladder) of success

"...the intense horror writer and possible serial killer from Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman at Hyde Park Theatre. This isn't..."

June 8, 2012 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Luv Doc Recommends: A Behanding in Spokane

Hyde Park Theatre, Saturday, May 14, 2011

"...in Spokane, an amputation-themed black comedy by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh about a man's 40 year search for his..."

May 13, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

Killer Joe

It won't warm your heart, but this tour de force of dark humor ought to thrill you

"...closest to a recent staple of Hyde Park Theatre, Martin McDonagh. It's a similar brand of dark humor, but..."

June 12, 2009 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Screens Top 10s

The Chronicle's film critics talk about their favorite movies of the year

"...(Charlie Kaufman), Rachel Getting Married (Jenny Lumet), In Bruges (Martin McDonagh) BEST SCREENPLAY (ADAPTED)..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Feature

Cinema16: European Short Films

Some of the best directors working today, whether abroad in relative obscurity or amid the grimy existential zillion-dollar glitz of Gotham City

"...their early work (or recent, as with Nanni Moretti, Martin McDonagh, Toby MacDonald, and the animator Run Wrake)...."

Sept. 7, 2007 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

The Iron Man

Longtime local stage phenom Ken Webster has a record to rival that of a Baseball Hall of Famer

"...is on line to direct the Austin premiere of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman as soon as Thom Pain comes..."

April 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Best of the Rest The Summer of '95, Part 2

"...Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento by Maitland McDonagh (Citadel Press, $18.95) nicely utilizes a line of beautiful..."

June 9, 1995 Books Feature

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...War On Everyone Director/Screenwriter: John Michael McDonagh Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

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