2012 · comedy · crime
Seven Psychopaths
Directed by Martin McDonagh1h 50m2012
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Our read: Seven Psychopaths (2012) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- funny
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