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Troubled men

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson star with Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin … Photograph: Alamy

Difficult Irishmen, reassemble: 14 years after Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson bickered In Bruges, they have reunited with director Martin McDonagh for The Banshees of Inisherin, a “macabre black comedy of toxic male pride”. No change there, then. After American sojourns, McDonagh revisits a 1920s west of Ireland locale more akin to the early plays that made his name.