The best film I've seen this year. Made me want to visit Bruges - but not that much

Rating: 9/10 (24 April 2008)

Where have all the black comedies gone? Well, we just found one of them and it's really good. If you'd seen the trailer, you might well be expecting something entirely different, perhaps a bit of a comedy farce, but please don't be put off. Wonderful characterisation, fantastic performances, real surprises, sublime dialogue, funny and beautifully tragic, what else can you ask for? Colin Farrell is absolutely superb, bringing life to a character at a level that is surely beyond the call of a man who has 'made it' in Hollywood. To compliment Farrell without acknowledging the other main characters is to sell them short, so Brendan Gleeson, the rather beautiful Clémence Poésy and Ralph Fiennes, here's to you. Please, go and see it because we need more films like this