The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Drama, Comedy
The Kernel take
An 87 Kernel Score ("Universal Acclaim," with a 94/6/0 positive-mixed-negative spread) reflects near-unanimous critical love for The Banshees of Inisherin. On just a $20M budget (marketing spend unreported) it returned roughly 2.5× that budget worldwide ($50.3M) — a modest but healthy return for a specialty drama-comedy, not a blockbuster number but a clean profit on a low-risk bet.
Director track record: Martin McDonagh
The Banshees of Inisherin's 87 is well above Martin McDonagh's 77-point career average across these films — his second-best score in this sample, just behind Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (88).
Lead track record: Colin Farrell
At 87, The Banshees of Inisherin sits far above Colin Farrell's 57.5-point average across these 25 films — comfortably the best-reviewed movie in this sample for him.
Box office
Budget $20M · Box office $50.3M
The Banshees of Inisherin opened on just $184K in a platform release, then grew +190.8% in its second weekend and kept climbing to a $2.057M third-weekend peak — the opposite of a wide release's decline curve. The $10.582M domestic total is a 57.5× multiple of that tiny opening weekend, reflecting a slow expansion rather than blockbuster legs.