Review: A friendship ends in ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’

What if, one day, your best friend decided that they didn’t want to be friends anymore? It’s 1923 on a small island off the west coast of Ireland when we meet Colin Farrell’s Pádraic, a happy and kindhearted fellow who is content with his life there living with his sister, the bookish Siobhan, tending to his favorite donkey, Jenny, and meeting his best friend Colm at the pub every day at 2 p.m. As Pádraic will come to find, Colm has decided he just doesn’t like him anymore and would like to spend the rest of his days doing anything but talking to him. People “The Banshees of Inisherin” presents an impossible conundrum and there’s no solution that will make everyone happy. He’s also possibly repeating the cycle of how Pádraic and Colm became friends in the first place — some combination of proximity and lack of options on a small island.