Martin McDonagh doesn’t make films very often, but he’s been on a roll over the last decade, with 2022’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” following up his award-winning work on “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” With “Wild Horse Nine,” the writer/director remains committed to creating particularly itchy characters going through major life changes in a mostly private manner, this time inspecting a partnership between two CIA officers that’s challenged by professional demands and the loss of mental faculties. It’s a character study that occasionally heads into greater confrontations and suspicions, but McDonagh is primarily invested in the twisty ways of temperament and memory, and he has a heck of a setting in Easter Island, giving the feature a rich visual presence. “Wild Horse Nine” goes deliberately with its storytelling, putting the helmer in control of an unfolding drama that surprises and periodically intimidates, carried along by excellent performances and, at times, genuine mystery. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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