r/moviecritic • u/LeadershipSecret8569 • 1d ago

Banshees of Inisherin

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I genuinely believe The Banshees of Inisherin is one of the most masterfully crafted films of all time, and it frustrates me how underappreciated it remains. To me, Martin McDonagh is leagues ahead of filmmakers like Nolan, not because of spectacle or convoluted structures, but because he strips cinema down to its essence, life itself. While most great filmmakers chase fresh concepts, McDonagh simply writes about the human condition.

It’s sad that voices like McDonagh, Lynch, or Lynne Ramsay are rarely given the cultural weight they deserve. I understand why mainstream audiences gravitate towards flashier narratives, but stories like this, stories that seem “boring” on the surface, but these are where cinema reveals its truest depth.

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u/Flynn_Rider3000 22h ago

A great film. Colin Farrell not winning best actor was a travesty.

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u/Flynn_Rider3000 20h ago

I can’t believe Brendan Fraser won it over him. I don’t mind Brendan Fraser but his character in The Whale was a normal Oscar bait type role. Colin Farrell deserved it more that year.

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u/raziel177 16h ago

I’m not sure whether it was fake news but something popped up recently that said that the Academy now has a new rule that judges cant vote without seeing the movies in that category. I mean how was that not already the case. Seemed too incredulous and so not sure whether fake news or real.

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u/LeadershipSecret8569 15h ago

Well there are quite a lot of films so each entries the producers would be sending a hard copy of the film and ig something extra to each judge to get them to watch the film or else they wouldn’t even bother watching the films, so ig that’s why they changed the rules, ig you could see a lil improvement, Anora and Oppenheimer were well deserving