It’s one of the year’s most interesting and very best films, a wildly entertaining and unexpectedly profound experience.
Featuring the filmmaker’s trademark dialogue, outrageous humor and an extraordinary lead performance from John Malkovich, it’s another first-rate entry in McDonagh’s filmography.
This latest historical drama from writer-director Paul Greengrass features impressive medieval production design, visceral battle sequences and an excellent ensemble cast.
Chastain delivers a committed dual performance, and some briefly glimpsed creature effects are genuinely disturbing, but almost everything else in this perplexing supernatural thriller falls spectacularly flat.
Like Sony’s Spider-Man-less villain movies, it struggles to reconcile its sympathetic protagonist with the comic-book supervillain he’s inevitably destined to become.