In Bruges, the opening night film at Sundance this year, is an interesting story that takes place, as the title points out, in Bruges, Belgium. While not a masterpiece in any sense, In Bruges ...

Ray (Colin Farrell) is enjoying his date with Chloe (Clémence Poésy) when he gets into a fight with a Canadian couple.

One of the most noticeable sea changes in movies over the years has been the ever-narrowing time span between a cult film’s initially underwhelming reception and the eventual reappraisal it receives ...

Should professional hitmen be depicted as funny and lovable? Morally speaking, I don’t think so—but then, morals in movies, books, and TV shows are relative (as moralists frequently complain). Quentin ...

Little Bruges, the perfect pocket-sized medieval city, was a Sleeping Beauty. Laced with canals, it was one of the great North European trading ports in late medieval times. The magnificently detailed ...

“After I killed ‘em, I dropped the gun into the Thames, washed the residue off my hands at Burger King and walked home to wait for instructions,” says a voice at the start of “In Bruges,” the first ...

Thank goodness for In Bruges. I was beginning to think Colin Farrell wasn’t going to release another great film. It helps that this is a superb film. Directed by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, it’s ...

In Bruges is a hard movie to describe. Written and directed by Martin McDonagh, Bruges might be called a neo-noir crime comedy, or a postmodern Shakespearean tragedy, or even a medieval morality tale.

Martin McDonagh benches the bolder side of his writing skills and tries his hand at genre and plot in his highly erratic filmmaking debut, "In Bruges." McDonagh’s transition here brings to mind David ...