The Forgiven (John Michael McDonagh 2022)

and so anyway it turns out that the best thing about John Michael McDonagh’s The Forgiven (2022), which we watched because I really quite liked The Guard (2011) and Calvary (2014), even though the director clearly drew the short straw and his brother got both Brendan Gleeson and the west coast of Ireland that year, is that bad things do happen to these awful people, although sadly those bad things are not bad enough and do not happen to enough of them or anywhere near quickly enough…