Seven Psychopaths
Struggling boozy writer Marty inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu. Marty uses the ensuing events as fodder for his screenplay.
14 November 1979, Berdyansk, Zaporozhye Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine]
4 October 1979, Valinda, California, USA
4 October 1984, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
15 June 1955, USA
20 June 1977, Harris County, Texas, USA
5 July 1968, Long Beach, California, USA
21 February 1980, Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
31 March 1943, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
15 August 1957, Ljubljana, Slovenia
13 December 1969, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1958, Nha-Trang, Vietnam
30 March 1984, Stockholm, Sweden
5 September 1986, Brooklyn, New York, USA
21 November 1960, Ocean Beach, California, USA
February 26, 2016
Seven Psychopaths may not add up to a whole lot, but McDonagh makes these small-time strivers and hoods fun to be around for a couple of hours.
October 22, 2012
The kind of messy, absurdist movie that can lift you out of a crappy mood-at least for a while.
October 12, 2012
Yes, it's a lot to keep track of, but writer-director Martin McDonagh does so with deft humor as the film hurls toward a desert climax, foreshadowed in one of Billy and Marty's exchanges.
October 07, 2015
There's never a moment in which "Seven Psychopaths" seems particularly original or inspired.
June 10, 2016
McDonagh might have had a minor classic in the tradition of Quentin Tarantino...But by the time the characters head to the desert to pitch a tent and contemplate new screenplay concepts, we've nearly forgotten what the movie is supposed to be about.
December 04, 2012
McDonagh is less saturated in film and pop culture than Tarantino and less prone than Kaufman to disappear down story wormholes.
October 14, 2012
This is one of the best times I've had at the movies in years.
April 17, 2016
Although "Psychopaths" is an enjoyably confounding experience, some will be put off by its parade of esoteric ideas. But what a parade it is.
July 20, 2013
A breezy, quotable, blood-soaked treat.
October 12, 2012
Each time it appears that McDonagh, who also directed, has written himself into a cul de sac, he off-roads the movie (sometimes literally) into fresh territory.
May 03, 2015
I'm not sure it all hangs together in the end, but McDonagh's grasping at something interesting.
October 12, 2012
All this narrative nesting and genre-skipping sounds very cerebral on the page, but in practice, Seven Psychopaths is as pleasurably kinetic as can be, full of double-crosses and gunplay and sun-kissed SoCal locations.
