On Brendan Gleeson

The In Bruges writer-director Martin McDonagh turns his focus on his regular star, the underrated Irish actor.

Bruges: “A Fucking Fairy Tale”

If In Bruges's killers turn that charming medieval town into a blood bath, that's nothing compared to what its own citizens used to do. Joel Bleifuss explains.

Death Becomes Him: A Movie Hitman History

In Bruges continues the great, though relatively recent, tradition of the hitman movie. Scott Macaulay gets this dark subgenre in his crosshairs.

Martin McDonagh's Morality

Priya Jain looks back at the morally complex, blackly comic and very violent theatrical work of In Bruges director Martin McDonagh.