Martin McDonagh’s final movie, The Banshees of Inisherin, was nominated for 9 Oscars, however did not win any. Might Wild Horse 9 do any higher? A politically charged black comedy about two CIA brokers on vacation on Easter Island in 1973, it is a showcase for an additional of McDonagh’s dysfunctional double acts, however as an alternative of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, who starred collectively in The Banshees of Inisherin and In Bruges, the 2 most important males are performed by John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell. Malkovich is a greatest actor front-runner. He’s at all times magnetically bizarre, however right here, as a pained, red-eyed, ageing murderer, he’s touching and complicated too. It helps that the 72-year-old has been nominated for 2 earlier Oscars, most not too long ago for Within the Line of Hearth (1993), and that Academy voters love a “comeback” narrative.
