Film: Psychos who sparkle but never shine

Reviewed: Seven Psychopaths

**Directed by Martin McDonagh**

**Nationwide, cert 16**

**Rating:** 3/5

Irish writer and director Martin McDonagh has gone Hollywood. His new film **Seven Psychopaths** is a gory black comedy which works both as a satire on, and an example of, hard-boiled gangster cinema.

Closely connected in spirit and execution to the surreal knottiness of Charlie Kaufman and the vivid Grand Guignol theatrics of Quentin Tarantino, McDonagh's follow-up to In Bruges operates ...