Seven Psychopaths

A screenwriter (Colin Farrell) gets sucked into the Los Angeles underworld when two friends (Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken) kidnap the beloved dog of a gangster (Woody Harrelson). Do you really need to be told that a movie called Seven Psychopaths is not for the squeamish? Good. If your cringe threshold is high enough, this is one of the funniest comedies of the year. Writer-director Martin McDonagh manages to top his debut feature, the cult favorite In Bruges, with the same flair for daffy non sequitur dialogue—but cranked up several notches—and a sterling deadpan cast able to pull it off with ease. Farrell is the sane one here: The psychopaths include Tom Waits and Long Nguyen, but after that, you might lose count. Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko and Zeljko Ivanek are also along for McDonagh’s wild ride.