John Michael McDonagh

And what a dissapointment War On Everyone turned out to be. The Guard and Calvary are great though.

He probably be in the shadow of his younger brother Michael, I think In Bruges is pretty much a untouchable masterpiece and Three Billboards and Six Shooter are fantastic as well. I even like Seven Psychopaths, although it's flawed it has great performances from Walken, Farrell, Rockwell and Harrelson to really make it worth while.

But as far as John Michael is, I think The Guard is a cracking little movie, great performance from Brendan Gleeson. Don Cheadle is also great. It's probably still his most easy to get into film out of his three so far. I loved Calvary, definitely not a film for everyone as it's a pretty bleak one for it's 90 something minute running time. But again Brendan Gleeson delivers a great performance, and top notch support cast. I think it's his best film to date but many would probably go for The Guard.

War on Everyone was a massive misstep for him, he had a top notch cast and it was his first film set in America and it just doesn't work for his style, even his brother struggled with his first American set film. It's better then it's 5.8 score on IMDB, I say a lower 6 would be more fair imo. I thought Skarsgard and Pena were the best things in it but overall for me definitely the weakest film in McDonagh brother's canon of works.

His next film sounds interesting The Forgiven with Ralph Fiennes, Mark Strong and Caleb Landry Jones will be a step back on the right track.